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Young People Are Discovering Fishing
Something very strange is happening across the country involving teens and fishing. Though some speculate it may be a re- sult of COVID-19, or per- haps distance learning about angling education, or possibly even Saturday morning television shows about teens catching fish, one thing is clear... today’s teens are suddenly going fishing in record-breaking numbers.
For instance, in one week, the Minnesota DNR sold a record 13,369 fish- ing licenses in to resident teens 16 and 17 years old.
Compared to sluggish his- toric growth, that’s 99% higher than a year ago for the same period. And it appears that these teens may well be driving up an- gling numbers across the board. In fact, Minnesota fishing license sales over- all shot up 44% to 362,000. That’s 110,000 more fish- ing licenses sold this spring than over the same period in 2019.
Perhaps Minnesota is simply an odd blip on angling statistics radar? It doesn’t appear so. The trend is spreading nation- ally. In Vermont, fishing
license sales have soared 62%. In nearby Wisconsin, sales are up 29%. In South Carolina, sales of resident freshwater licenses have risen by 20%. And in Kan- sas, license sales are up about 15%. Tennessee so far has sold 697,418 hunt- ing-fishing licenses this
year...an increase of more than 100,000 from 2019. In some places the reopening of fishing from COVID-19 restrictions impacted sales. For instance, after Gov. Jay Inslee announced a partial reopening of activities in- cluding fishing on April 27, the Washington Depart-
ment of Fish and Wildlife reported $300,000 of fish- ing license sales in a single day.
“It’s likely a combina- tion of things that have never occurred before at the same time”, says Pat Neu, President of the Fu- ture Angler Foundation (FAF). “A lot of local, re- gional and national pro- grams have been targeted at getting kids fishing in recent years. Maybe the influences of COVID-19 created a tipping point that finally caused teens to grab fishing gear and hit the water this spring.
New distance learning and television shows are likely part of the mix too. In Wis- consin, Getting Families Fishing television shows blanket the state on a dozen stations, and nationally the distribution network for the series can reach into over 150 million homes across the country, including nu- merous PBS stations.”
The Future Angler Foundation (FAF) is an incorporated 501(c) (3) non-profit foundation formed in April of 2012. More information about the FAF can be found on line at www.futureangler.org .
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