Importance of Fish Consumption to Sport Fishermen

Matlock, Gary C.; Saul, Gary E.; Bryan, Colleen E.

doi:10.1577/1548-8446(1988)013<0025:iofcts>2.0.co;2

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“…If this specificity argument is true, this shortcoming affects most recreational research on motivations that employs scales designed to measure general desired psychological outcomes (e.g., Driver, 1977). Therefore, the past debates about the transferability of findings from motivational item importance research to specific angling situations (Ditton & Fedler, 1989;Matlock, 1991;Matlock et al, 1988;Peyton & Gigliotti, 1989;Trellis, 1991) For the walleye model, we found a significant relationship between social group and the harvest decision of walleye and northern pike by anglers. The results indicated that walleye and northern pike anglers were more likely to harvest their catch when they fished in the company of friends-only instead of a group composed of family members or mixed individuals.…”

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“…In particular, Fedler and Ditton (1994) suggested that angling motivations are an important factor that influences angling behavior. However, past research has debated the validity of relating motivational items to the actual behavior of anglers (Ditton & Fedler, 1989;Matlock, 1991;Matlock, Saul, & Bryan, 1988;Peyton & Gigliotti, 1989;Trellis, 1991). Many of these social scientists studying recreation behavior are convinced that such debates arise from misunderstandings of social data interpretations by fisheries managers and biologists (Ditton & Fedler, 1989;Fisher, 1997;Peyton & Gigliotti, 1989).…”

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Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions by Anglers

Hunt¹,

Haider²,

Armstrong³

2002

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

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This paper examined whether angling catch behaviors, angler characteristics, and angler evaluations could explain the decisions by anglers to harvest caught fish. Particularly, we determined if the propensity of tourist anglers to harvest caught walleye (Stizostedion vitreum), northern pike (Esox lucius), and smallmouth bass (Micropterus Dolomieui) was related to variables that measured catch rates, angling effort, catch rates for substitute fish species, motivational item importance, and/or social group variables. The results showed that catch rates and angling effort were essential for explaining anglers' decisions to harvest caught fish. Although explaining much less of the variation in the harvest behavior among anglers, the results also showed that standard concepts of human dimensions research such as substitution, motivation, and social groups were statistically related to the decisions of harvesting caught fish by anglers.We would like to thank Rob MacKereth of the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources and Bonita McFarlane of the Canadian Forest Service along with two anonymous reviewers for their helpful suggestions and reviews of previous manuscripts. We also thank the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources for funding the research project. Data from creel surveys or angler creel diaries afford researchers a unique opportunity to test hypotheses related to concepts in recreation research. Whereas most recreation research focuses on testing such hypotheses from research approaches based on stated preferences and choices and/or behavioral antecedents including beliefs and attitudes, the validation of such hypotheses with empirical data is typically lacking. By linking social and economic research questions to actual catch and harvest data reported by anglers in creel surveys or creel diaries, researchers may empirically test the relationship between the actual harvesting behavior by anglers and the various hypotheses formulated in recreation research. Especially in the context of consumptive recreation behavior, any new insights that might contribute towards the sustainable use of natural resources are of utmost importance to resource managers.This study was designed to understand the fish harvesting behavior of anglers as reported in creel diaries. In particular, we attempted to determine the salient factors associated with harvesting decisions for three species of fish-i.e., walleye (Stizostedion vitreum), northern pike (Esox lucius), and smallmouth bass (Micropterus Dolomieui)-by anglers who visited a tourism fishing establishment in northern Ontario.The decision of an angler to harvest caught fish may depend on many factors, including angling catch rates and angling effort, motivating factors, and social normative pressures. These factors do not exhaust all potential influences that may explain the decision of anglers to harvest caught fish. Rather, these factors afford us an opportunity to demonstrate how researchers can employ angler diary information to understand some reasons why anglers harvest fi...

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Section: Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions Of Anglersmentioning

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Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions by Anglers

Hunt¹,

Haider²,

Armstrong³

2002

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

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“…Hudgins (1984) and Arlinghaus (2006) both found angler ratings of satisfaction and fishing success to be strongly correlated with catch related components of the fishing experience; however, numerous studies of angler motivations have found non-catch related items to be ranked more important than catch related items as reasons for fishing (Fedler & Ditton, 1994). At first glance this seems paradoxical, and some fisheries managers have questioned the validity of motivational data (Matlock, Saul, & Bryan, 1988). Arlinghaus (2006) proposed an explanation to this contradiction by arguing that it is much easier for anglers to satisfy their non-catch related needs (e.g., relaxation, to be outdoors) than it is to satisfy their catch related needs (e.g., catch a trophy fish, to experience the catch).…”

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Arkansas Urban Resident Fishing Site Preferences, Catch Related Attitudes, and Satisfaction

Hutt

Neal

2010

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

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Declines in recreational fishing participation, underrepresentation of non-whites among the angling population, and increased urban immigration and sprawl has prompted the development of urban fishing programs. This study sought to develop profiles of anglers living within urban areas located throughout the state of Arkansas. We separated anglers based on the percentage of their fishing effort that was spent within their city of residence. Anglers that predominately fished urban waters were 34% more likely to be non-white than anglers that fished rural waters exclusively. Urban anglers placed greater importance on catch, on-site amenities, and safety than rural anglers, while rural anglers placed greater importance on the scenic beauty of a site and the ability to escape the trappings of the urban environment. Future fisheries management efforts will be dependent on the support of growing urban populations, and fisheries managers will need to strongly consider the unique needs of these constituents.

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“…Weithman and Anderson (1978) developed the minimum length for the qualitylength category from the relationship between world-record length and fish quality, and related the minimum to a length that is 36-41% of the species-specific world-record length. Even though fish harvest is an important part of the fishing experience for most anglers (Matlock et al, 1988;Peyton and Gigliotti, 1989;Spencer, 1989), the actualized minimum length of a quality-length fish likely differs between catch-and-release-orientated anglers and harvestorientated anglers (Wilde and Ditton, 1994;Arlinghaus, 2006b;Anderson et al, 2007) The decision to harvest any given fish depends on the dynamic relationship of an anglers' expectation, or perceptions, of what can be potentially caught in the waterbody within the confines of the harvest regulation (Cook et al, 2001;Hunt et al, 2002;Anderson et al, 2007). In our study, we were unable to conclude that the restriction of the harvest regulation altered the self-imposed length limits across the species assessed.…”

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Self-imposed length limits in recreational fisheries

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a b s t r a c tA primary motivating factor on the decision to harvest a fish among consumptive-orientated anglers is the size of the fish. There is likely a cost-benefit trade-off for harvest of individual fish that is size and species dependent, which should produce a logistic-type response of fish fate (release or harvest) as a function of fish size and species. We define the self-imposed length limit as the length at which a captured fish had a 50% probability of being harvested, which was selected because it marks the length of the fish where the probability of harvest becomes greater than the probability of release. We assessed the influences of fish size, catch per unit effort, size distribution of caught fish, and creel limit on the selfimposed length limits for bluegill Lepomis macrochirus, channel catfish Ictalurus punctatus, black crappie Pomoxis nigromaculatus and white crappie Pomoxis annularis combined, white bass Morone chrysops, and yellow perch Perca flavescens at six lakes in Nebraska, USA. As we predicted, the probability of harvest increased with increasing size for all species harvested, which supported the concept of a size-dependent trade-off in costs and benefits of harvesting individual fish. It was also clear that probability of harvest was not simply defined by fish length, but rather was likely influenced to various degrees by interactions between species, catch rate, size distribution, creel-limit regulation and fish size. A greater understanding of harvest decisions within the context of perceived likelihood that a creel limit will be realized by a given angler party, which is a function of fish availability, harvest regulation and angler skill and orientation, is needed to predict the influence that anglers have on fish communities and to allow managers to sustainable manage exploited fish populations in recreational fisheries.

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Importance of Fish Consumption to Sport Fishermen

Cited by 43 publications

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Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions by Anglers

Understanding the Fish Harvesting Decisions by Anglers

Arkansas Urban Resident Fishing Site Preferences, Catch Related Attitudes, and Satisfaction

Self-imposed length limits in recreational fisheries

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