Conducted every five years since 1995, the latest national survey shows a 20% drop in big game hunters since 2011.
The US Census Bureau at the request of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies has performed the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation Report every five years since 1955. Preliminary findings of the 2016 National Survey were issued in August 2017. The final, more detailed report of estimates will be available online in December at http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/home.html. Conservation Force has always monitored the reports closely because of misrepresentations and misinterpretations of the reports. This time there seems to be reason for concern that big game hunting, which hit a high point in 2011, is now in decline.
The new report estimates that in 2016 there were 11.5 million hunters as a class who spent an average of 16 days pursuing wild game and expended $25.6 billion hunting at an average of $2,237.00 per hunter. The reported 20 percent decline in the number of big game hunters, a decline of 2.362 million, is the focus of this article. Analysis of expenditures, time in nature, fishing, and the broader wildlife-associated recreation will better come from the "final" report in December.
No one spends more time afield or money on their nature-related activity than hunters. So a decline in the number of hunters is concerning. The number of hunters has gone from 13.034 million in 2001, down to 12.510 million in 2006, up to 13.674 million in 2011, and now down to 11.5 million in 2016. The surprise increase from 12.510 million to 13.674 million from 2006 to 2011 has now dropped off to 11.5 million in 2016. That is 2.174 million down from five years ago. It can be viewed as a smaller loss of 1.310 million in 10 years if one prefers to compare this new survey with 2006 for the longer 10-year trend.
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http://www.huntingreport.com/conservation_force.cfm?id=463
The US Census Bureau at the request of the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies has performed the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation Report every five years since 1955. Preliminary findings of the 2016 National Survey were issued in August 2017. The final, more detailed report of estimates will be available online in December at http://wsfrprograms.fws.gov/home.html. Conservation Force has always monitored the reports closely because of misrepresentations and misinterpretations of the reports. This time there seems to be reason for concern that big game hunting, which hit a high point in 2011, is now in decline.
The new report estimates that in 2016 there were 11.5 million hunters as a class who spent an average of 16 days pursuing wild game and expended $25.6 billion hunting at an average of $2,237.00 per hunter. The reported 20 percent decline in the number of big game hunters, a decline of 2.362 million, is the focus of this article. Analysis of expenditures, time in nature, fishing, and the broader wildlife-associated recreation will better come from the "final" report in December.
No one spends more time afield or money on their nature-related activity than hunters. So a decline in the number of hunters is concerning. The number of hunters has gone from 13.034 million in 2001, down to 12.510 million in 2006, up to 13.674 million in 2011, and now down to 11.5 million in 2016. The surprise increase from 12.510 million to 13.674 million from 2006 to 2011 has now dropped off to 11.5 million in 2016. That is 2.174 million down from five years ago. It can be viewed as a smaller loss of 1.310 million in 10 years if one prefers to compare this new survey with 2006 for the longer 10-year trend.
Read more here
http://www.huntingreport.com/conservation_force.cfm?id=463