Identification
- Name and social security number
- Number in party and relationship
to them
- Vessel identification (name, Coast
Guard number, or state registration number)
- Port of departure
- Departure date and time
- Return date and time
Harvest
- Target species
- Catch by species (number and
possibly weight)
- Number released by species
- Number given to friends, relatives,
mate, or captain
- Number and cash from sale and identity
of purchaser
Preferences
- Reason(s) for fishing (e.g.,
enjoyment, food, income) and relative importance
- Satisfaction with
trip
- Maximum willingness to pay for this
trip (fee) (e.g., if your costs for fishing on this day had increased
by $X, would you still have gone fishing on that day?)
- Experience (number
of years)
- Subscription to fishing periodicals?
- Own motor boat?
- Part of a vacation? Fishing vacation?
- Alternative use of this time
(e.g.,
how much money could you have earned if you hadn't taken this trip?)
Money costs (expenses of only the person interviewed)
- Fee paid for self plus others
in party (number and relationship of others paid for)
- Gear rental
- Tackle
- Bait
- License
- Filleting service
- Goods on board (food, drink, tackle,
T-shirts, etc.)
- Travel activities
- Miles (one
way)
- Time (one
way)
- Travel expenses
by category (gas, oil, lodging, food, etc.)
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