Maybe the survey is designed to elicit a certain reply to get a desired response.

I don't think so though sometimes surveys elicit a response that was not intended. In this case that response may be: "I don't remember".

Maybe the survey is designed to elicit a certain reply to get a desired response.

Maybe for the future, they could notify selected licenses in advance at the time of purchase. Then a monthly email reminder to fill it out for the previous month while it's still fresh?

Yeah, DFO's Internet Recreational Effort and Catch (iREC) survey assigns you a calendar month to complete for: May for me this year.

Perhaps ISEA might get higher participation/larger sample size and more accurate data if the survey was for a month, not a year, and not so onerous to complete.

Then again, I'm sure smart people designed the ISEA survey, and my statistics expertise is limited to an undergrad class or two!

My goodness that was a laborious/tedious process! I keep a fishing journal but adding up, then recording, the number of days, species and locations was a chore. If I didn't keep a journal, my responses (read "wild arse guesses") would be woefully inaccurate.

I got it too, and only made a few screens in before I bailed and set it aside for another time. From the other responses it sounds like it might be a PITA to do properly

I'm not a statistician, but there must be a better way of doing it than asking anglers to remember and report that level of detail over an entire year period.

Maybe for the future, they could notify selected licenses in advance at the time of purchase. Then a monthly email reminder to fill it out for the previous month while it's still fresh?

Yes, being able to edit responses would be useful. Perhaps something they could implement in the future.

Good to see you back. Looking forward to reading your fishing and hunting reports.

It was worthwhile to email them. They replied to my email right away, and will correct my mistakes, and also forward my concern about not being able to edit my answers to the survey developer.

See you on the golf course after we clear out our lockers.

Good talking to you again, I hope you have had some good fishing the last while. I only made one trip last year, to the Thompson when the 3 of us did well on the jacks.

See you on the golf course after we clear out our lockers.

Well yur team made a good try at the end and made for an exciting finish. See you come October, when the Cup once again will be ours next June.

I found it a chore too, and I only had two fishing days to report.  I don't keep a journal, only a few comments on my wall calendars, which I keep for a few years.  I made a lot of guesses on expenses, time spent fishing each day, etc.  I also made a mistake on what species I targetted on one day.  Once you go to the next page, the survey doesn't let you correct mistakes.
In fine print at the bottom of the pages, it said to make corrections, to email them.  With the amount of time I'd already spent on that survey, I wasn't about to get into an email conversation, so I just left the mistakes in.  I hated to do that, since I'm normally a careful person, but I was annoyed at the way the survey was written.

What would it have taken the author of that survey to add an edit function, like every other online form I've ever filled out?  Clicking the back button allows you to change an answer, but that correction doesn't show up on later pages.  There could just be a review-edit page at the end.  Somebody really dropped the ball on this one.