Alaska Sport Fishing Licenses, 1993-2016

This dataset contains information about sport fishing licenses issued by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game from 1993-2016. A sport fishing license is mandatory for any resident over the age of 18 or nonresident over the age of 16 participating in sport or personal fishing activities in fresh or marine waters. Licenses are valid from the date of purchase through December 31st of the year of purchase. Data is collected via the application process and includes: license year, type code, license number, city, state, zip code, country, sex, citizenship, vendor number, class code, and issue date. This package includes the combined, reformatted data file (SportFishingLicense_Data.csv); the original data as csv files (1993.csv-2016.csv); and the reformatting script (SportFishingLicenses_DataReformat_Script.R).