Working with, not against recreational anglers: Evaluating a pro-environmental behavioural strategy for improving catch-and-release behaviour

Mannheim, Samantha L.; Childs, A-R; Butler, Edward C.; Winkler, Alexander C.; Parkinson, Matthew C.; Farthing, MW; Zweig, Tamzyn; McCord, Meaghen E.; Drobniewska, Natalia; Potts, Warren M.

doi:10.1016/j.fishres.2018.04.016

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“…In Pacific salmon fisheries, Nguyen et al (2012) identified diverse types of anglers that prefer particular information sources, such as in person interactions, pamphlets, and the internet, suggesting that a range of education means is likely to more broadly reach the angler population. Similar to Fujitani et al (2017), Mannheim et al (2018) achieved success in promoting conservationminded angling practices in a South African shore-based recreational fishing league by first integrating scientists into the fishing community to build trust, then implementing multiple behavioral interventions, including rule changes, improving angler knowledge, behavioral modelling, rewards, penalties and feedback. Mannheim et al (2018) provide an example of overcoming angler distrust of scientists and management (Dedual et al, 2013) to identify effective approaches to influencing angler behaviors such as rewards and penalties.…”

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The future of recreational fisheries: Advances in science, monitoring, management, and practice

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Recreational fisheries (RF) are complex social-ecological systems that play an important role in aquatic environments while generating significant social and economic benefits around the world. The nature of RF is diverse and rapidly evolving, including the participants, their priorities and behaviors, and the related ecological impacts and social and economic benefits. RF can lead to negative ecological impacts, particularly through overexploitation of fish populations and spread of non-native species and genotypes through stocking. Hence, careful management and monitoring of RF is essential to sustain these ecologically and socioeconomically important resources. This special issue on recreational fisheries contains diverse research, syntheses, and perspectives that highlight the advances being made in RF research, monitoring, management, and practice, which we summarize here. Co-management actions are rising, often involving diverse interest groups including government and non-government organizations; applying collaborative management practices can help balance social and economic benefits with conservation targets. Technological and methodological advances are improving the ability to monitor biological, social, and economic dynamics of RF, which underpin the ability to maximize RF benefits through management actions. To ensure RF sustainability, much research focuses on the ecological aspects of RF, as well as the development of management and angling practices that reduce negative impacts on fish populations. For example, angler behavior can be influenced to conform to conservation-minded angling practices through regulations, but is often best accomplished through growing bottom-up social change movements. Anglers can also play an important role in fisheries monitoring and conservation, including providing data on fish abundance and assemblages (i.e., citizen science). The increasing impacts that growing human populations are having on the global environment are threatening many of the natural resources and ecosystem services they provide, including valuable RF. However, with careful development of research initiatives, monitoring and management, sustainable RF can generate positive outcomes for both society and natural ecosystems and help solve allocation conflicts with commercial fisheries and conservation. which ultimately determines the degree of environmental impacts across aquatic landscapes (

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Section: Transferring Best Angling Practices To Anglersmentioning

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“…In the above case (Mannheim et al, 2018), working with a competitive league affords certain opportunities to implement local-scale organizational rules to influence angler behavior. However, in many cases, anglers are less organized and more difficult to reach.…”

Section: Transferring Best Angling Practices To Anglersmentioning

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The future of recreational fisheries: Advances in science, monitoring, management, and practice

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“…Examples are decline in the time taken by anglers to place fish into bucket, use of barbless hooks (Hickley, 1998), and avoid of C&R during reproductive period (FAO, 2012). For tournaments, Mannheim et al (2018) suggest improving angler knowledge, behavioral modelling, rewards and penalties. Delimitation of exclusive areas for recreational fisheries can improve survival rates post-releasing, avoiding fish exposure to commercial, intensive effort (Bartholomew and Bohnsack, 2005).…”

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Danger beyond the catches: a review of conservation threats posed by commercial and non-commercial fisheries in Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil

Chaves

2021

Braz. J. Biol.

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Comparisons between the implications of commercial and recreational fisheries for estuarine conservation have been a topic of debate. A review on the available data from Guaratuba Bay, Southern Brazil, identifies six threats for conservation, other than those concerning the fishing effort on target resources. Differing from the popular view that fishing for pleasure could be innocuous for the environment, the identified threats concern both commercial and non-commercial fisheries: (1) catching of reproductive individuals; (2) catch of big old fat fecund females; (3) loss and abandonment of fishing gears; (4) use of natural baits; (5) bycatch of rays, turtles and non-target finfish; and (6) bad practices associated with catch-and-release or discarding. Environmental disturbances and fauna depletion are detected as potential impacts. Recommended actions for estuary conservation include fishing closures in mangrove and shallow waters areas, release of fish larger than the critical size, and measures against abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gears.

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“…Relationships between anglers and conservation practitioners also enable collaborative opportunities for developing and applying conservation initiatives (Schroeder et al, 2018). Although historically anglers have often distrusted practitioners, new approaches that respect these traditional barriers to collaboration are helping to better foster these relationships (Mannheim et al, 2018). Relationships between anglers and the non-angling public are also important, especially considering the recent growth of anti-fishing movements (Arlinghaus et al, 2012).…”

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Searching for responsible and sustainable recreational fisheries in the Anthropocene

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Reid

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Journal of Fish Biology

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Recreational fisheries that use rod and reel (i.e., angling) operate around the globe in diverse freshwater and marine habitats, targeting many different gamefish species and engaging at least 220 million participants. The motivations for fishing vary extensively; whether anglers engage in catch‐and‐release or are harvest‐oriented, there is strong potential for recreational fisheries to be conducted in a manner that is both responsible and sustainable. There are many examples of recreational fisheries that are well‐managed where anglers, the angling industry and managers engage in responsible behaviours that both contribute to long‐term sustainability of fish populations and the sector. Yet, recreational fisheries do not operate in a vacuum; fish populations face threats and stressors including harvest from other sectors as well as environmental change, a defining characteristic of the Anthropocene. We argue that the future of recreational fisheries and indeed many wild fish populations and aquatic ecosystems depends on having responsible and sustainable (R&S) recreational fisheries whilst, where possible, addressing, or at least lobbying for increased awareness about the threats to recreational fisheries emanating from outside the sector (e.g., climate change). Here, we first consider how the concepts of R&S intersect in the recreational fishing sector in an increasingly complex socio‐cultural context. Next, we explore the role of the angler, angling industry and decision‐makers in achieving R&S fisheries. We extend this idea further by considering the consequences of a future without recreational fisheries (either because of failures related to R&S) and explore a pertinent case study situated in Uttarakahand, India. Unlike other fisheries sectors where the number of participants is relatively small, recreational angling participants are numerous and widespread, such that if their actions are responsible, they have the potential to be a key voice for conservation and serve as a major force for good in the Anthropocene. What remains to be seen is whether this will be achieved, or if failure will occur to the point that recreational fisheries face increasing pressure to cease, as a result of external environmental threats, the environmental effects of recreational fishing and emerging ethical concerns about the welfare of angled fish.

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Working with, not against recreational anglers: Evaluating a pro-environmental behavioural strategy for improving catch-and-release behaviour

Cited by 26 publications

References 37 publications

The future of recreational fisheries: Advances in science, monitoring, management, and practice

The future of recreational fisheries: Advances in science, monitoring, management, and practice

Danger beyond the catches: a review of conservation threats posed by commercial and non-commercial fisheries in Guaratuba Bay, southern Brazil

Searching for responsible and sustainable recreational fisheries in the Anthropocene

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