One of the most important aspects of the research is to understand angling participation better...

We want to know why people fish, what their participation in angling involves, and how that participation does, or doesn’t have benefits for them and their communities.

Please help our research, and angling, by contributing to our work on Angling Participation. You can do this in a number of ways:

• Send us your comments via our Comment Tool
• Upload and tag your angling photos
• Contact us to tell us about your angling experience, club, project or event and be interviewed for the research

Questionnaire

A questionnaire-based survey of anglers in England and Scotland was undertaken between July and October 2009. The survey collected more 2,400 responses. Data from the survey are currently being analysed, with preliminary results to be published on this website from December 2009. If you want to find out more about the survey data and/or would like to have access to a specific dataset, please contact us.

Comment

We want to know what you think about angling participation. Click below to tell us:

• Why you go fishing and what sort of anglin do you do?
• How you started angling and how your involvement has changed or developed?
• Where you fish?
• Whether you get involved in angling clubs, competitions, volunteering, environmental work or other ’associated’ activities?
• Does angling help with your health, relaxation, well being, or physical activity?
• Anything else!

Go to the Comment Tool/Forums

Photos

Pictures tell a thousand words they say. Please post your pictures on Flckr, tag them with ‘AnglingResearch’ and add make sure to a comment.

If you're not familiar with Flick but would like to give it a go, we've prepared a short guide to Flickr (pdf 220KB) that is available to download .

See pictures others have uploaded here:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=AnglingResearch&m=tags

Staff

Paul Stolk is Substance’s researcher assigned to this aspect of the work. Paul is leading the questionnaire study but would also like to hear from anglers who would be prepared to be interviewed for the research. Paul is fully CRB checked and can be contacted at
anglingparticipation@substance.coop

Contact Us

Email us at: anglingresearch@substance.coop or use the contact form