{"id":966,"date":"2019-09-30T02:19:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T06:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/?p=966"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:49:58","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T19:49:58","slug":"how-do-anglers-and-non-anglers-differ-when-they-hire-a-boat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/hooklinescience\/how-do-anglers-and-non-anglers-differ-when-they-hire-a-boat\/","title":{"rendered":"How Do Anglers and Non-Anglers Differ When They Hire a Boat?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Research shows that regardless of whether people fish, they share some similar tastes in chartered trips \u2014 but the findings also reveal how charter companies might hook more non-anglers.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s safe to generalize that a portion of our state\u2019s anglers like to book and take charter fishing trips each year. In fact, North Carolina has the fourth largest number of charter boat trips on the East Coast, behind only New York, New Jersey and Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But people who don\u2019t fish also book charter fishing trips, and, when you consider the demographics of the state and the country, there are way more non-anglers than anglers. Since non-anglers may never seek out a traditional fishing trip with a charter captain, how are charter captains to know how to appeal to this share of the market?<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s not that often that researchers ask non-anglers hypothetical questions about fishing, but when they do, the results can be interesting and often surprising \u2014 especially to charter captains interested in more business.<\/p>\n\n\n\nResearch Need<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n