Understanding and Managing Freshwater Recreational Fisheries as Complex Adaptive Social-Ecological Systems

Arlinghaus, Robert; Alós, Josep; Beardmore, Ben; Daedlow, Katrin; Dorow, Malte; Fujitani, Marie; Hühn, Daniel; Haider, Wolfgang; Hunt, Len M.; Johnson, Brett M.; Johnston, Fiona D.; Klefoth, Thomas; Matsumura, Shuichi; Monk, Christopher T.; Pagel, Thilo; Post, John R.; Rapp, Tobias; Riepe, Carsten; Ward, Hillary G. M.; Wolter, Christian

doi:10.1080/23308249.2016.1209160

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“…These plans need to have specific objectives tailored to urban recreational fisheries, and integrate across relevant government Departments and across levels of government in order to deliver holistic management. Overall, such a holistic approach is consistent with an ecosystem based approach to fisheries management [47], and consistent with considering recreational fisheries as a complex and adaptive social-ecological system [7].…”

Section: Meeting the Urban Recreational Fishing Challenge-planning Anmentioning

confidence: 91%

“…However, it is controlled by management arrangements which limits the activity to certain fishing gear types (e.g., hook and line), and frequently controls the size at which an individual animal can be retained (minimum and/or maximum legal sizes), and the number of fish that an individual may retain (bag limits) [4]. Contemporary thinking is that the management of recreational fisheries needs to extend beyond the traditional models based on fisheries biology, to an ecological-social approach as it involves ecosystems, natural living resources, humans and institutions such as government management agencies [5][6][7].…”

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Urban Recreational Fisheries in the Australian Coastal Zone: The Sustainability Challenge

McPhee

2017

Sustainability

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Abstract:Recreational fishing is an important wildlife harvesting activity in urban coastal areas, and recreational harvest in these areas can frequently exceed the commercial harvest. Recreational fishing is a key way that many members of the public experience the environment. The activity enhances social capital, promotes respect for nature, provides health benefits and can provide economic benefits to coastal communities. It is also an important driver of the science on aquatic animals and habitats, and an important tangible reason for many members of the public to conserve and protect aquatic resources. Overall, there has been little specific consideration of urban recreational fisheries management in Australia, despite the paramount importance of urban areas as a focus of recreational fishing activity. This paper identifies that in order to maximize individual and societal benefits from recreational fishing, there needs to be a refocussing of management with the aim of being more holistic. Historically, fisheries management in Australia has focused on maximum sustainable yield (MSY) or maximum economic yield (MEY) which is relevant for the commercial fishing sector, but neither of these is directly relevant to recreational fisheries. This paper identifies that Urban Fisheries Management Plans are required that recognize the specific issues associated with urban recreational fisheries. These plans need to coordinate within and between levels of government and have clear management objectives relevant to urban recreational fisheries. Enhanced opportunities for meaningful citizen science can be incorporated at multiple levels within these plans and this can engender public support for environmental stewardship, as well as fill a very important gap in the knowledge base necessary for managing the activity. As urban recreational fisheries are often occurring in highly modified or degraded habitats, a central element of these plans needs to be habitat restoration and this can have broader benefits for aquatic health. Other management tools include habitat creation (e.g., artificial reefs), optimization of coastal infrastructure as fisheries habitat, and stock enhancement. Overall, Urban Fisheries Management Plans represent a necessary evolution of fisheries management to better address the specific challenges of urban recreational fisheries management, and to best ensure that benefits are optimised.

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Section: Meeting the Urban Recreational Fishing Challenge-planning Anmentioning

confidence: 91%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Recreational Fisheries in the Australian Coastal Zone: The Sustainability Challenge

McPhee

2017

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“…While there is scientific debate whether pike are a native Irish species (Pedreschi et al, 2014;Ensing, 2015) and public debate on the merits of pike population management (Viney, 2015), the objective of the analysis here is to gain a more detailed understanding of anglers' preferences for pike stock management. There is an growing consensus that fisheries management is as much about people management as it is about fish stock management (Wilen et al, 2002;Arlinghaus, 2004;Hilborn, 2007;Arlinghaus et al, 2017). Specifically, Arlinghaus et al (2005) suggest that one of the most pressing needs in recreational fisheries is the management of 'people conflicts' because such conflicts can hamper any progress towards sustainability.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Hunt et al (2010Hunt et al ( , 2014) a number of angler representative bodies vociferously argue their perspective on behalf of their affiliated angling club membership. Sustainable management of recreational fisheries requires a transition from single objective management to ecosystem management and aquatic stewardship (FAO, 2012;Arlinghaus et al, 2017) and therefore requires knowledge of fish biology, aquatic ecosystems, as well as all stakeholders. The information base on the human dimensions of recreational fisheries is particularly weak in many European countries with Ireland being no exception.…”

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Pike (Esox lucius) stock management in designated brown trout (Salmo trutta) fisheries: Anglers’ preferences

Curtis

2018

Fisheries Research

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Pike (Esox lucius) stock management in designated brown trout (Salmo trutta) fisheries: Anglers' preferences John Curtis* Abstract: This paper examines anglers' preferences for active stock management of pike populations within designated wild brown trout fisheries in Ireland. While the policy of pike control has a long history, it is not without controversy and conflict. As the objective of pike control is the protection of trout stocks, a superficial view might be that trout anglers favour and pike anglers oppose such management intervention. Pike and trout anglers do not have homogeneous preferences; in fact, a substantial minority of pike anglers also fish for trout and vice versa. The current paper is the first to examine Irish pike and trout anglers' preferences over fishery attributes, including pike stock control methods. Preference data was elicited by means of choice experiments for pike and trout anglers and a latent class site choice model is used to estimate anglers' utility functions. Not surprisingly model results show that pike anglers do not support pike stock control and almost universally would choose fishing sites where there are no pike stock controls, all else equal. We find that the majority of trout anglers, 61%, are negatively disposed towards pike stock control, and all else equal, are more likely to choose fishing sites where pike stocks are not actively managed. A substantial minority of trout anglers (i.e. 39%) could be considered advocates of pike control, with about one-third of these being more extreme in their preferences, with site choice probabilities of such anglers being largely determined by the pike control management option. Terms of use: Documents in

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“…For example, angler groups may be defined by angler preference and behavior (Connelly et al, 2001;Ditton, 2005, 2006;Morey et al, 2006;Beardmore et al, 2013;Chizinski et al, In press), whereas water-body types may be defined by fish assemblage (e.g., largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides and bluegill Lepomis macrochirus fishery versus hybrid striped bass Morone chrysops × M. saxatilis, walleye Sander vitreus, and largemouth bass fishery) − this is just one of many ways to group anglers and water bodies. Angler groups and water-body types likely interact to create a complex social-ecological system Arlinghaus et al, 2017). It is difficult to predict potential changes to and resilience of a social-ecological system without a thorough understanding of the structure of the complete system (Johnston et al, 2013(Johnston et al, , 2015Pope et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

Network analysis of a regional fishery: Implications for management of natural resources, and recruitment and retention of anglers

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Understanding and Managing Freshwater Recreational Fisheries as Complex Adaptive Social-Ecological Systems

Cited by 156 publications

References 211 publications

Urban Recreational Fisheries in the Australian Coastal Zone: The Sustainability Challenge

Urban Recreational Fisheries in the Australian Coastal Zone: The Sustainability Challenge

Pike (Esox lucius) stock management in designated brown trout (Salmo trutta) fisheries: Anglers’ preferences

Network analysis of a regional fishery: Implications for management of natural resources, and recruitment and retention of anglers

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