Effects of Catfish Angler Catch‐Related Attitudes on Fishing Trip Preferences

Hutt, Clifford P.; Hunt, Kevin M.; Schlechte, J. Warren; Buckmeier, David L.

doi:10.1080/02755947.2013.822443

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“…For example, American catfish ( Siluriformes sp.) anglers have very distinctive preference structures ranging from consumption‐oriented anglers to size‐oriented anglers less interested in keeping fish (Hutt, Hunt, Schlechte, & Buckmeier, ). The same finding has been found in American walleye anglers, where walleye anglers with a stronger retention orientation showed more aversion to low bag limits and to protected slot limits (Carlin et al., ).…”

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The nexus of fun and nutrition: Recreational fishing is also about food

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Recreational fishing is a popular activity in aquatic ecosystems around the globe using a variety of gears including rod and line and to a lesser extent handlines, spears, bow and arrow, traps and nets. Similar to the propensity to engage in voluntary catch‐and‐release, the propensity to harvest fishes strongly varies among cultures, locations, species and fisheries. There is a misconception that because recreational fishing happens during non‐work (i.e. leisure) time, the nutritional motivation is negligible; therefore, the role of recreational fishing in supporting nutrition (and thus food security) at regional, national or global scales is underappreciated. We consider the factors that influence whether fish will be harvested or released by examining the motives that underlie recreational fishing. Next, we provide an overview of the magnitude and role of recreational fishing harvest in supporting nutrition using regional case‐studies. Then, we address issues such as contaminants and parasites that constrain the ability of fish harvested by recreational fishers to be consumed. Although recreational fishing is foremost a leisure activity, the harvest of fish for personal consumption by recreational fishers has contributed and will continue to contribute to human nutrition by providing an accessible, affordable and generally highly sustainable food source, notwithstanding concerns about food safety and possibly overfishing. Attempts to better quantify the role of fish harvested by recreational fishers and the relative contribution to overall food security and personal nutrition will provide resource managers and policymakers the information needed to guide management activities and policy development.

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“…; Hutt et al. ). Thus, contemporary fishery management objectives are more complex, as managers attempt to satisfy a diverse array of angler desires and expectations (Garcia‐Asorey et al.…”

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Modeling the Responses of Alligator Gar Populations to Harvest under Various Length‐Based Regulations: Implications for Conservation and Management

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Interest in managing Alligator Gar Atractosteus spatula populations as a unique sport fishery has increased over the past decade, but despite this interest population responses to harvest are poorly understood. Fishing regulations for Alligator Gars vary throughout their distribution; however, to date most regulations have focused on a daily creel limit. We developed an age‐structured dynamic‐pool model in R to (1) quantify the population‐level effects of exploitation and (2) evaluate how these effects would be altered under a suite of length‐based fishing regulations. The model was parameterized based primarily on empirically estimated dynamic rates for Texas Alligator Gar populations. For each model scenario, we calculated the mean and variance of the number of trophy fish in the population, the population size, the spawning potential ratio, and the fishery yield over a 100‐year period. Alligator Gar populations were highly sensitive to exploitation in our model simulations. An exploitation rate of 7% caused the average population size to decline by 50%, and a rate of only 3% halved the number of trophy fish available in the population. Under no length restrictions, recruitment overfishing occurred above an exploitation rate of 6.5%, while yield was maximized at only 9% exploitation. Based on our model results, the use of length limits may provide some options for sustaining existing trophy Alligator Gar fisheries under increased effort and could allow anglers to catch and even harvest more trophy‐size fish. Given the sensitivity of long‐lived periodic life history strategists to exploitation and the benefits that length‐based regulations can provide, we encourage managers to consider such regulations to increase resilience to exploitation and improve fishery quality.

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“…This moderating effect can result in anglers exhibiting different preferences when confronted with identical changes to resource and/or social conditions. Researchers have examined the stability of preferences among many subpopulations of anglers as defined by sociodemographics, residency (e.g., Criddle et al 2003;Lew and Larson 2014), or catch orientation (e.g., Carlin et al 2012;Hutt et al 2013).…”

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Understanding How Angler Characteristics and Context Influence Angler Preferences for Fishing Sites

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Haider

2017

N American J Fish Manag

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Understanding angler heterogeneity is critical for fisheries managers to be able to develop management approaches that minimize stress to fish and aquatic ecosystems while maximizing benefits to anglers. We used a stated‐preference choice model of British Columbia, Canada, anglers to predict their behavioral intentions to fish at lakes described by catch‐related and non‐catch‐related attributes, such as expected catch and travel distance. We investigated how different means of accounting for preference heterogeneity and decision context affected conclusions about angler preferences for fishing sites. Our preferred model of fishing site choice accounted for both observable and unobservable (to the researcher) preference heterogeneity for site attributes, angler characteristics (i.e., recreation specialization and residence), and context (i.e., trip duration and target species). On average, anglers’ preferences conformed to expectations, but preferences for different site attributes varied greatly among anglers and contexts. For example, highly specialized anglers were more influenced by catch rates, fish size, and bag limits and were less deterred by travel than were less‐specialized anglers. Anglers facing multiple‐day trip contexts were influenced more by fish size and bag limits than were anglers considering day fishing trips. This latter result is especially important, as researchers often estimate models of angler behaviors by excluding anglers that undertake multiple‐day trips, who might be the most sensitive to changes in regulations and fishing quality characteristics. Received June 19, 2017; accepted September 18, 2017Published online November 10, 2017

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Effects of Catfish Angler Catch‐Related Attitudes on Fishing Trip Preferences

Cited by 21 publications

References 40 publications

The nexus of fun and nutrition: Recreational fishing is also about food

The nexus of fun and nutrition: Recreational fishing is also about food

Modeling the Responses of Alligator Gar Populations to Harvest under Various Length‐Based Regulations: Implications for Conservation and Management

Understanding How Angler Characteristics and Context Influence Angler Preferences for Fishing Sites

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