% of female sea anglers in englad

[Mogthemackem]

Does anyone know what the percentage of female sea anglers in England is compared to males or how i can find out? cheers

 

[JediX]

count them My lass loves coming with me and has her own gear now, was on Roker sat night and there was 2 other women having a fish, a few clubs have a member list but its probs around 1-15 ratio. I wouldnt think there's any reliable stats but I would estimate only a few % and out of that less than half are regular as opposed to just the odd day here and there.

 

[Mogthemackem]

Christ that was fast Jedi. Luckily my wife doesn't like anything about fishing so I can have my "own time". Just a report I have to do and was wondering what the stats are compared to the % I've managed in my project.

Cheers anyway

 

[JediX]

not sure if you want women in general or just sea but there seems to be plenty around which might help.

England Ladies Fly Fishing Association
WIFIP home page
Women Fishing

 

[Mogthemackem]

It was just sea fishing as the EA hold the details of all anglers with a permit. I suppose this is just something that's impossible to measure tbh as there's no way to do this. I'm guessing at about 5% which is what a fw others have said so I think I'll just put an estimate in my report. Thanks for all your help though

 

[marksworld]

The percentage of Women and Girls participating in Angling is 20%. (Environment Agency "Public Attitudes to Angling Survey - October 2001)


thats the best i can do and i take that is all types of angling not just sea fishing

 

[Charlie_Thompson]

NFSA might have stats :question:

Maybe try someone from one of the womens national teams

 

[alan]

Not sure what they would base there Stats off if there is any,maybe from the fishing licence's for fresh water,therefore the sea fishing stats will be unknown

 

[Mogthemackem]

That's what I thought Alan. Unfortunately it was only sea fishing I was after as I know you can get the stats for rod licenses but just thought someone might have tried a survey. Thanks anyway guys

 

[davem2005]

Mog,

Sorry not to be able to find exactly what you want but these links may provide a links to surveys that have been done.

This doc...page 87. Names reports where studies have been carried out.

http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/publications/studies/sportfishing_2006.pdf

May be worth having a look at the reports.

One of the largest and most recent studies was the Drew Report

The questionairre for the drew report
http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/reports/seaangling/annexiv.pdf

Page 8 question 28 ...Gender?

So there should be some info in the final report.

Extract from the Drew Report into the economic contribution of sea angling (March 2004)

Most anglers are male (96.7%) and had been fishing for 25.7 years on
average. 55% of anglers had incomes in the £10,000-£30,000 range, but
17% had incomes exceeding £40,000. Anglers catch, on average, between 5
(shore anglers) and 13 (boat anglers) fish per trip and retain 32-39% of their
catch. Most anglers had observed a trend decline in the number of fish
caught and their size. This was more marked over a 15-year period but there
was still a decline over the last five years.

But its 82 pages long and I honestly haven't time to read it all

View it at

http://statistics.defra.gov.uk/esg/reports/seaangling/finalrep.pdf

Hope this helps.

Happy reading.º¿º

As an afterthought I hope I have not infringed any copyright stuff with that quote.

Cheers
Dave

 

[Mogthemackem]

That's excellent Dave. No doubt a lot of this info will do goo for the future aswel. Cheers mate