Recreational Fishing

Canada

2000 Survey of Recreational Fishing in Canada
Survey Highlights

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Volunteer Work in Support of Recreational Fisheries

The year 2000 was declared the "Year of the Volunteer" in Canada. In response to this initiative, anglers were asked to provide information on the days they devoted to such activities as habitat clean up, fish passage construction, stream stewardship, etc. The survey found that Canadian anglers spent over a million days on activities related to enhancing the recreational fisheries environment. Quebec and Ontario anglers devoted over 300,000 days in each of these provinces, followed by over 240,000 in British Columbia. Figure 6 shows the breakdown of the number of volunteer days by resident Canadians anglers.