The Sea Angling Diary Project has been running since 2016 and is one of the longest running research projects on sea angling in the UK. It has grown from 500 participants in 2016 to over 2,400 in 2022 – and over 6,000 have taken part in total. Each year, the project involves sea anglers who commit to provide information via a mobile app and online tool about: 

• Their sea angling activity (when they fish in a month or not). 

• Their sea angling sessions (location, duration, method and platform) 

• Their catches. 

• One off surveys about their spending and social impacts. 

These data are used, alongside other surveys, to provide an estimate of the participation levels (numbers, frequency), catches by species and area, economic value of sea angling and its social impacts. 

You can find out more here: www.seaangling.org