2023 NOAA Fisheries Recreational Fisheries Economic Constituent Workshop Report

In recognition of the importance of economic data collection and analysis for informing recreational fisheries management, NOAA Fisheries hosted its second Recreational Fisheries Economic Constituent Workshop in Tampa, Florida on April 25–26, 2023. The workshop built upon discussions held at a previous such workshop in 2014 as well as at the 2018 and 2022 National Saltwater Recreational Fisheries Summits. The workshop’s purpose, as defined by its seven-member Steering Committee, was to “identify how the community can collectively engage to improve economic data collection, analysis, reliability of estimates, and application to decisions.”