The growing awareness of the impact that recreational fishers can have on fish stocks has
highlighted the paucity of information used to inform their management. Most of the available …

In this study, three distinct segments of German anglers differing with respect to degree of
catch orientation as the main fishing motive were identified in a nationwide telephone survey …

Fisheries managers are becoming increasingly aware of the need to quantify all forms of
harvest, including that by recreational fishers. This need has been driven by both a growing …

This study represents the first nationwide assessment of marine recreational fishing in
Spain. A new cost-effective approach was used to collect fisher's information: an online …

Recreational fisheries represent the dominant fisheries sector targeting wild freshwater
fishes in all industrialized nations and are becoming increasingly popular in some emerging …

Recreational fishing is a popular sport and leisure activity in many countries worldwide.
There has been growing interest by recreational fishing groups and researchers in the …

We compare estimates of recreational harvest provided concurrently by two fundamentally
different survey designs: an offsite panel survey and an onsite aerial-access survey. Aerial …

Research on the social and economic value of marine recreational fishing and its possible
effects on marinefish stocks and ecosystems has been underrepresented in Germany in the …

Fisheries statistics are known to be underestimated, since they are mainly based on
information about commercial fisheries. However, various types of fishing activities exist and …

This book is concerned with evaluating recreational fishing, distinguished from commercial
fishing, which is primarily for profit, and subsistence fishing, primarily for food, by being …