National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (FHWAR)

This single page version of the 2022 Survey is designed for those wanting to print the survey as single pages. It contains the same information and data as the double page booklet version of the document. 

This single page version of the 2016 Survey is designed for those wanting to print the survey as single pages. It contains the same information and data as the double page booklet version of the document designed for print. 

This single page version of the 2011 Survey is designed for those wanting to print the survey as single pages. It contains the same information and data as the double page booklet version of the document designed for printing. 

This 2006 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provides information on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-related recreation.

This 2001 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provides information on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-related recreation.

The 1996 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provides information on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-related recreation.

The 1991 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provides information on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-related recreation.

Wildlife is important in the lives of the American public. Wild animals have intrinsic, utilitarian, and cultural values to people that touch them at a personal level. About 45 percent of the age 16 and older U.S. population, enjoyed closely observing, feeding, and photographing wildlife (...

This 2022 addendum report provides the latest information regarding under-represented populations of hunters and anglers— women, Hispanics, African Americans, and Asian Americans — and reveals how often they go afield and how much they spend for these activities.

The 2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation (Survey) indicates that hunting and fishing remain highly important lifestyle choices in the United States. This report follows three prior efforts by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to examine recruitment and...

The following report provides economic and demographic information on bird watching in the United States. The information is of use to a litany of public interest groups and policy makers. This report identifies the characteristics of those who watch, feed, or provide habitat for birds, such as...

Big-game hunting is unquestionably the most popular type of hunting in the United States. Big-game hunters pursue deer, elk, bear, wild turkey, moose, wild sheep, feral goat, or some other large animal. There were 11.5 million big-game hunters in 2022. For people 16 years of age and over, about...

Wildlife-related recreation is one of the most popular forms of recreation in the United States. In 1991, annual participants in hunting, fishing and wildlife watching totaled over 109 million. By comparison, total attendance for all major league baseball, football, basketball and hockey games...

State-by-state estimates of the net economic value of bass and trout fishing, deer hunting, and primary non-residential wildlife watching based on contingent-valuation questions from the 1991 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation are presented in this report.

This paper is one of a series designed to complement the National and State reports of the 1985 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation with investigations of particular fish and wildlife related trends and other topics of interest. This paper presents estimates...

This paper presents estimates of the number of trout anglers and days of fishing for trout for the nation as a whole and for each of the 50 states. Sociodemographic characteristics of those who fish for trout are compared with the U.S. population. Trout anglers are also compared to freshwater...

This paper presents state by state estimates of the net economic value of primary nonresidential activities based on contingent valuation questions in the 1985 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Net economic values are the appropriate measure of economic...

This paper presents state by state estimates of the number of hunters using wetlands for hunting in 1985 and the number of days they hunted on wetlands. The same information is aggregated to the seven U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regions in order to provide a different geographic perspective....

This 1965 National Survey of Fishing and Hunting was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provides information on individuals involved in fishing and hunting. 

This report provides demographic data and participation statistics on target shooting in the U.S., including a breakdown of both firearms and archery target shooting. With 47 million firearms and 19 million archery target shooters, target shooting is a popular activity among many Americans. In...

This 1980 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation was coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and provides information on individuals involved in fishing, hunting, and other wildlife-related recreation.

Sections of the 1980 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and Wildlife-Associated Recreation that dealt with nonconsumptive uses of wildlife are analyzed. The data are based on 5,997 detailed personal interviews of Americans 16 years old and older who participated in some form of nonconsumptive...

This report provides state trend information on the number of anglers, hunters, and nonconsumptive wildlife-related recreation participants from 1980 to 1990. Nonconsumptive participants are those persons who observed, fed, or photographed wildlife. They engaged in those activities with the...

In 1991 forty-three percent of all freshwater anglers in the United States fished for black bass. In this report we present and discuss black bass fishing in the United States and the characteristics of black bass anglers. The data used for this presentation come from the 1991 National Survey of...

The 1985 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation was designed to gather information about American participation in fishing, hunting, and other forms of wildlife-associated recreation. The national survey has been conducted every 5 years since 1955 and represents...

In 1985, an estimated four million people, age 16 or older, participated in recreational shellfishing in the U.S. and undertook over 28 million days of shellfishing. The top five states, in terms of the number of residents that participated in recreational shellfishing, were Florida, California...

Land owned and managed by the government provides hunting and non-consumptive wildlife related recreation opportunities for millions of Americans. This report summarizes and discusses the extent of use of public land for wildlife related recreation based on results of the 1985 National Survey of...

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation angler data sets for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation hunter data sets for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation wildlife-watcher data sets for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation screener data sets for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation screener data codebook for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation angler data codebook for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation hunter data codebook for download. 

2022 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, & Wildlife-Associated Recreation wildlife-watcher data codebook for download.