Angler Opinions of Bluegill Management and Related Hypothetical Effects on Bluegill Fisheries in Four Minnesota Lakes

Reed, Jeffrey R.; Parsons, Bradford G.

doi:10.1577/1548-8675(1999)019<0515:aoobma>2.0.co;2

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“…concerning harvest regulations or other management alternatives such as fish stocking (e.g., Aas & Skurdal, 1996;Reed & Parsons, 1999;Connelly, Brown, & Knuth, 2000). This is perhaps the area of application where the utility of human dimension research is most obvious to resource managers (Aas, Haider, & Hunt, 2000;Ditton, 2004).…”

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Determinants of management preferences of recreational anglers in Germany: Habitat management versus fish stocking

2005

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In Europe research and policy debates point to the need to increase efforts to rehabilitate or restore habitat structure and function at the expense of the traditional recreational fisheries management approach to intensively stock fish. Against this background it is paramount to understand and explain the management preferences of anglers. No research has empirically examined key factors explaining whether anglers prefer various forms of habitat management (HM) over stocking. By means of a telephone survey, we investigated the management preferences of a nationwide random sample of anglers in Germany to fund either HM or fish stocking. Management strategies potentially restricting the own activity were, on average, opposed. Anglers with high pro-ecological and low traditional management beliefs, negative stocking and positive HM attitudes, satisfied with the previous angling year, less catch orientated, successful (catch) and committed, fishing most frequently in natural water bodies, and living in more rural areas exhibited the preference to fund HM as opposed to stocking. Basic human characteristics such as beliefs, attitudes and the angler's consumptive orientation were more meaningful predictor variables than typical angler variables such as demographics, angler experience or angler preferences (e.g. species preference). Angler catch and satisfaction emerged as the only near-term managerially manipulable variables that could be addressed to increase support for HM. Traditional management approaches without effort limitation will probably fail to initiate this shift. Anglers should be increasingly involved personally in designing and implementing management programs to facilitate their ''education'' about the outcomes and risks of various management actions.

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Determinants of management preferences of recreational anglers in Germany: Habitat management versus fish stocking

2005

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“…Traditionally, sunfish have not been managed using MLLs (Coble 1988), but this topic has garnered more interest in recent years. Anglers in Minnesota supported a decrease in the daily bag limit for bluegill from 30 to 20 fish per day but did not support further reductions in the bag limit (Reed & Parsons 1999). However, almost half of the anglers surveyed supported some form of MLL.…”

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“…The primary angler interest in bluegill fisheries is typically size rather than the number of fish in the creel (Reed & Parsons 1999; Edison et al. 2006).…”

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Evaluating the potential effectiveness of harvest restrictions on riverine sunfish populations in Georgia, USA

Sammons

Maceina

2008

Fisheries Management Eco

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The effects of minimum length limits (MLLs) on bluegill, Lepomis macrochirus Rafinesque, redbreast sunfish, Lepomis auritus (Linnaeus), and redear sunfish, L. microlophus (Gu¨nther), fisheries in 13 river sections located across Georgia were evaluated. A Beverton-Holt equilibrium yield model was used to predict and compare the response of these fisheries to three MLL scenarios: 100 (i.e. no size limit), 125 and 150 mm. Model results indicated that natural mortality rates of all sunfish species examined in this study were low enough to allow harvest restrictions to be effective if growth was fast. If sunfish reached 203 mm in <4.0 years, then MLLs were generally effective in increasing size structure without decreasing yield or causing unacceptable declines in the number of fish available for anglers to harvest. Harvest restrictions resulted in minimal increases in size structure, declines in yield and a large decrease in the number of fish harvested by anglers if time to reach 203 mm was ‡ 8.0 years. Response to MLLs was more variable when fish grew to 203 mm in 4.0-6.5 years. Examination of mortality caps largely supported the results from the model, but there was indication that empirical rates of total annual mortality may have been biased high in some instances.

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“…). Even though bag limits are well received by anglers, acceptance of highly restrictive bag limits that actually limit harvest may be very difficult to obtain (Reed and Parsons ; Currie and Fulton ; Lester et al. ).…”

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“…). Size‐based regulations are often used alongside bag limits because they may allow for more moderate regulation changes that can still achieve management objectives, such as reducing harvest without having to use very restrictive regulations that are not favored by anglers (e.g., low bag limits, Reed and Parsons ; high minimum length limits, Boxrucker ; seasonal restrictions or restricted access, Jacobson ).…”

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Using Limited Data to Identify Optimal Bag and Size Limits to Prevent Overfishing

Moreau

Matthias

2018

N American J Fish Manag

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Bag and size limits are commonly used in recreational fisheries management, but these regulations are often treated as separate management tools. This effectively overlooks how bag and size limits can be simultaneously used to achieve multiple management outcomes (e.g., reduce exploitation, prevent overfishing, maximize angler acceptance, etc.). Our objectives were to combine data‐limited stock assessment methods with an angler catch simulation and a yield‐per‐recruit model to assess the effectiveness of bag and size limits to decrease exploitation rates and improve the spawning potential ratio (SPR). We then applied these methods to the Kipawa Lake Walleye Sander vitreus fishery that has experienced overfishing and poor fishing quality. Using data‐limited assessment methods, the exploitation rate was estimated at 0.45 (95% CI = 0.32–0.59) and the population was overfished (mean SPR = 0.06; 95% CI = 0.02–0.13). Bag limits significantly reduced total harvest when extremely restrictive (i.e., reduced to one fish per angler from the current limit of six), but changes in bag limits alone were not sufficient to prevent overharvest because SPR remained below 0.35. Size limits could be used to prevent overharvest with narrow harvest slots (up to a 14‐cm slot range with a minimum harvestable size greater than 32 cm) or large minimum size limits (>52 cm) at the current bag limit of six. When bag limits were reduced to one or two fish per day, harvest windows could be 3–13 cm larger and minimum length limits could be 3–12 cm lower to prevent overharvest. This analysis outlines a relatively simple and effective method that can be applied using data commonly collected in annual agency surveys to predict which regulatory combinations can be used to prevent overharvest, reduce exploitation rates, and maximize angler satisfaction and acceptance of regulations. Finally, the data and model code are included in the Supplement and can be easily applied to other data limited fisheries.

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Angler Opinions of Bluegill Management and Related Hypothetical Effects on Bluegill Fisheries in Four Minnesota Lakes

Cited by 32 publications

References 6 publications

Determinants of management preferences of recreational anglers in Germany: Habitat management versus fish stocking

Determinants of management preferences of recreational anglers in Germany: Habitat management versus fish stocking

Evaluating the potential effectiveness of harvest restrictions on riverine sunfish populations in Georgia, USA

Using Limited Data to Identify Optimal Bag and Size Limits to Prevent Overfishing

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