Northeast Marine angler expenditures 1998 (NCEI Accession 0175812)

Maine to Virginia anglers were surveyed on their fishing related expenditures. Angler expenditures for the most recent trip in 1998, by fishing mode - for-hire, private boat, shore. Includes categories such as bait, ice, fuel, lodging, meals, transportation, etc. Expenditures on durable goods used in more than one fishing trip such as rods and reels, boats, vehicles, second homes. Expenditures were collected both as an add-on to the intercept, and a followup phone survey with those who completed the intercept and a separate random sample of households. The I5 files provide some information on the angler's trip and the I9 files were a separate sample source from a household random digit dial phone survey. Anglers intercepted and recorded in the I5 files were contacted in a phone follow up survey (I7 files).