Luring anglers to enhance fisheries
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Abstract
Current fisheries management is, unfortunately, reactive rather than proactive to changes in fishery characteristics. Furthermore, anglers do not act independently on waterbodies, and thus, fisheries are complex socio-ecological systems. Proactive management of these complex systems necessitates an approach—adaptive fisheries management—that allows learning to occur simultaneously with management. A promising area for implementation of adaptive fisheries management is the study of luring anglers to or from specific waterbodies to meet management goals. Purposeful manipulation of anglers, and its associated field of study, is nonexistent in past management. Evaluation of different management practices (i.e., hypotheses) through an iterative adaptive management process should include both a biological and sociological survey to address changes in fish populations and changes in angler satisfaction related to changes in management. We believe adaptive management is ideal for development and assessment of management strategies targeted at angler participation. Moreover these concepts and understandings should be applicable to other natural resource users such as hunters and hikers.
| Publication type | Article |
|---|---|
| Publication Subtype | Journal Article |
| Title | Luring anglers to enhance fisheries |
| Series title | Journal of Environmental Management |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.jenvman.2010.10.002 |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Year Published | 2011 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Elsevier |
| Publisher location | Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| Contributing office(s) | Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit |
| Description | 5 p. |
| First page | 1409 |
| Last page | 1413 |
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