Annual recreational angling license sales data from British Columbia collected via the BC Freshwater Fishing e-Licencing system. Sales are summarized by residency type, product category, and license type for each license year from April 2010 to March 2024. The dataset is provided by the Government of British Columbia and was last updated in April 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in resident versus non-resident fishing participation based on residency type data.
- Track sales of specific license categories over time based on product type and license type.
- Model annual revenue from recreational fishing based on license sales summarized by license year.
- Assess the impact of conservation initiatives based on data on conservation surcharge sales.
Strengths
- Data spans 15 consecutive license years from 2010 to 2024.
- Sales are categorized by three specific dimensions: residency, product type, and license type.
- Data originates from an official government e-licensing system.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to British Columbia.
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Collected through the BC Freshwater Fishing e-Licencing system.
- Time Range
- April 1, 2010 to March 31, 2024.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:38:02.656016; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada.