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Washington Angler Survey

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is conducting a study of licensed anglers to learn more about your fishing, shellfishing, and diving participation and preferences so that we may better manage specific fisheries and opportunities. For this survey we are interested in your fishing and shellfishing participation, as well as any diving participation, in Washington for the full past fishing license year, from April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020.

Your answers are very important to the Department, and the survey will only take approximately 5 minutes. Your answers will be kept completely confidential and will not be associated with your name or license in any way.

The Department is also currently conducting a separate licensed angler survey by telephone that is an annual survey to help allocate funding. These are two different surveys, and we would greatly appreciate your response to this one at this time.

Washington state recently experienced recreational fishing and shellfishing closures due to the coronavirus, and we completely understand any frustration the recent closures may have caused. Recreational fishing and shellfishing were closed statewide on March 25, 2020, just before the past fishing license year ended on March 31, 2020. For this survey, we are specifically interested in your fishing and/or shellfishing participation for the past fishing season from April 1, 2019, up until the closure on March 25, 2020.

Some recreational fishing opportunities started reopening on May 5, 2020. The Department continues to monitor the situation and reopen in phases.

For more information and updates on fishing closures and reopenings in Washington, you can visit the Department’s website at wdfw.wa.gov or the Department’s coronavirus response page at https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/covid-19-updates.

Please click "Next" below to begin the survey.
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife is conducting a study to learn more about fishing, shellfishing, and diving participation and preferences so that we may better manage specific fisheries and opportunities. For this survey we are interested in your fishing, shellfishing, and diving participation in Washington state waters specifically for April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020.

Your answers are very important to the Department, and the survey will only take a approximately minutes. Your answers will be kept completely confidential.

Washington state recently experienced recreational fishing and shellfishing closures due to the coronavirus, and we completely understand any frustration the recent closures may have caused. Recreational fishing and shellfishing were closed statewide on March 25, 2020, just before the past fishing license year ended on March 31, 2020. For this survey, we are specifically interested in your fishing and/or shellfishing participation for the past fishing season from April 1, 2019, up until the closure on March 25, 2020.

Some recreational fishing opportunities started reopening on May 5, 2020. The Department continues to monitor the situation and reopen in phases.

For more information and updates on fishing closures and reopenings in Washington, you can visit the Department’s website at wdfw.wa.gov or the Department’s coronavirus response page at https://wdfw.wa.gov/about/covid-19-updates.

Please click "Next" below to begin the survey.