The Sea Angling Diary Project has shown that up to around one million adults have been sea angling in the past year, fishing for up to 7.5 million days. Each year sea anglers up to £1.3 billion on their sport, resulting in a total economic impact of over £1.5 billion pounds and supporting over 13,000 jobs. Up to 54.5 million fish are caught, 80% of which are released.

You can find out all of the details in previous reports here:

• Sea Angling in the UK 2016 and 2017

• Sea Angling in the UK 2018-19

Reports from a previous study, Sea Angling 2012 are also available here

A social study on the impacts of COVID-19 on the diary panel found that anglers spent less and had a lower health and wellbeing score when restricted from participation in sea angling. The report can be
found here.