Water quality and recreational angling demand in Ireland

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“…Note that in our dataset, as reported in Table 3, the mean number of trips is 3.02, while the standard deviation is 3.67, placing the variance at 13.5, over four times the value of the mean. Several others also shown that the NB model performs better than the Poisson model [15,25,26]. Nonetheless, in our estimations the two model estimates are quite similar in magnitude and significance level.…”

Water quality and recreational use of public waterways

“…Numerous studies have analysed the impact of water quality on recreational water-use demand. Topics have included angling (Bockstael, Hanemann, and Kling 1987;Curtis and Stanley 2016), swimming (Needelman and Kealy 1995), beach visits (Hanley, Bell, and Alvarez-Farizo 2003), boating (Lipton 2004) and many other water-based recreational activities (Binkley and Hanemann 1978;G€ url€ uk and Rehber 2008;Hynes, Hanley, and Scarpa 2008;Paudel, Caffey, and Devkota 2011). A contribution of this paper is its use of revealed user data to determine which water quality measures users are most responsive towards and whether the response varies by recreational activity.…”