Yes it does. It's the most important part.
all of us here love and care for the fish, otherwise we wouldn't spend our time talking about them in this forum
but if we hypothetically never got to fish for them, most of us would spend considerably less time and money on them and they would be losing because anglers are always the ones pushing for habitat restoration and conservation.
I have never heard of commercial fishers donating money to conserving fish. They are businesses. Note I am not talking about family fishers who fish for a living and have been for a long time, but rather boats sponsored by big business or government that scoop up the whole recreational catch in half a day that end up rotting in superstore where there is a complete disconnect between consumer and fish.
Especially the young folks who have the rest of our lives to spend fishing, advocating and investing time and money, if we were to lose the opportunity to fish, I guarantee you we will all find new ways to spend our money and entertain ourselves.
Maybe a handful of retired folk will still out the same effort for the fish but will you still be around in 10, 30 years to support them?