CEFAS1e678a83-bb2b-4aaf-89b4-cc8babf735d0 English dataset Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk pointOfContact 2026-01-29T02:21:51 EPSG Geodetic Parameter Registry 2022-01-07 revision WGS 84 Sea Angling Diary Catch, Participation and Economic Estimates 2016-2021 2023-06-15 publication 2026-01-29 revision 2023-05-25 creation CEFAS21673 https://data.cefas.co.uk Modelled estimates of the participation, catch and economic impact of recreational sea angling taken from the Sea Angling Diary project in the UK from 2016 onwards which collects user responses via an app. Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk originator Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk custodian Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science, Lowestoft Laboratory (CEFAS) Cefas Lowestoft Laboratory Pakefield Road Lowestoft Suffolk NR33 0HT UK data.manager@cefas.co.uk distributor Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) defra.helpline@defra.gov.uk owner notPlanned Fish SeaDataNet P03 parameter discovery vocabulary 2011-03-25 revision Coastal environment Economics GEMET, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Species distribution GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication Unknown SeaVoX Vertical Co-ordinate Coverages 2010-05-18 revision Marine Environmental Data and Information Network MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication data.gov.uk MEDIN metadata record availability 2012-01-11 publication otherRestrictions noLimitations otherRestrictions Publicly available data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 ( `https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/`_ ) – Please note the applicable attribution statement is as follows: ‘includes Crown copyright, Cefas 2025' .. _`https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/`: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ English biota 1.73881 1.74086 52.4581 52.4595 2016-01-01 2021-01-01 Binary Delimited Unknown https://data.cefas.co.uk/view/21673 Cefas Data Portal download The Cefas Data Portal contains metadata records and data sets available to download and connect to in support of our commitment to open science. Data is available in the following formats: Binary download, CSV. dataset INSPIRE Data Specification on Species Distribution – Technical Guidelines 2013-12-10 publication false See the referenced specification Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 publication true See the referenced specification The Sea Angling Diary programme has been running since 2016 with the aim of estimating the number of sea anglers, how often they fish, what they catch, and the social and economic benefits that they generate. This is done through combining the outputs from two surveys: a survey of 12,000 individuals that generates estimates of the numbers of anglers and their characteristics; and sea anglers that volunteer as ‘citizen scientists’ to report their catches through the Sea Angling Diary with separate surveys for volunteers to report their spend on Sea Angling in 2016, 2017 and 2021. These estimates are combined accounting for differences in characteristics of sea anglers to generate the numbers and tonnages of fish kept and released by sea anglers in the UK as well as the economic impact of sea angling. To estimate the participation and effort by UK sea anglers, questions were added to a survey of 12,000 residents (Watersports Participation Survey - WPS). Due to COVID restrictions, it was not possible to do face-to-face surveys as in 2016-19. Instead, data from the WPS from 2016-19 were modelled and used to derive estimates for 2016-2020 for the UK. This approach utilised all existing data to generate estimates for the total number of UK anglers and days fished with more consistent and robust results than previous annual estimates. Sea anglers signed up to the Sea Angling Diary provide data on their fishing sessions and report catches of fish. These data were used to model the number of fish kept and released by individual sea anglers each year and the weights of individual fish. Numbers of sea anglers were combined with diary panel estimates of catch per angler, to estimate total UK catches, after correcting for differences between the diary sample and the UK population. Economic estimates were generated from separate surveys of the diarist panel in 2016, 2017 and 2021 as part of the sea angling diary project. Expenditure on trips and major items (capital) was collected from the sample of sea anglers and raised to the total population of UK sea anglers using information generated from the estimates of the participation and effort by UK sea anglers. The total economic impact, Gross Value Added (GVA), and employment supported by sea angling in the UK in 2016, 2017 and 2021 were estimated using an Input-Output method. In this, taxes were removed, and expenditure partitioned between industrial sectors accounting for imports. MEDIN 3.1.1