Recreational Fishing Participation and Expenditures in the United States
By Assane Diagne, David Lavergne and Williams Olatubi
ABSTRACT
In 1996, more than 35 million U.S. residents participated in recreational fishing and spent $38 billion dollars in this activity. This study evaluates participation decisions and expenditures on recreational fishing activities in the United States using data obtained from the "1996 U.S. National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation." The selection bias resulting from the presence in the sample of respondents who did not participate in recreational fishing, and thus reported zero expenditures, is corrected using a double hurdle estimation approach. Explanatory factors used in the model include respondents' socioeconomic attributes such as age, gender, marital status, level of education ethnicity and income. Respondents' places of residence are also used to highlight differences in participation and expenditures between the census regions. Fishing habits such as species targeted are also used as independent variables. Estimation results are discussed in light of the changing demographic composition of the United States.
KEYWORDS: recreational fishing; double hurdle; selection bias
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