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• Identification (name, address, telephone, social security number)
• Number in party and relationship to them
• Departure date and time
• Port of departure
• Location(s) fished
• Hours fished (time gear is in water)
• Fishing mode(s) (boat, pier, jetty, shore)
• If boat:
  • Owned or leased
  • Registration number
  • If owned:
    • Type
    • Length
    • Engine horsepower

Harvest

• Target species
• Catch by species (number and weight)
• Number released by species
• Number given to friends or relatives
• 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?
• 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)

• Fuel cost
• Oil cost
• Bait (repeat for each type)
  • Description
  • Cost
• Tackle and gear (repeat for each type)
  • Description
  • Quantity
  • Cost
• Ice cost
• Rental equipment (repeat for each type)
  • Description
  • Quantity
  • Cost
• Mooring/dockage fees
• License
• Travel activities
  • Miles (one way)
  • Time (one way)
  • Travel expenses by category (gas, oil, lodging, food, etc.)