Substitution in Recreational Fishing

Gentner, Brad; Sutton, Stephen G.

doi:10.1002/9780470697597.ch8

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“…Researchers have called for more research on substitution to guide management, specifically on temporal and strategic substitution (Brunson & Shelby, 1993;Gentner & Sutton, 2008). This study has identified how two groups of recreationists apply different types of temporal and strategic substitution to cope with hydro-peaking dynamics in a regulated river.…”

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“…Havitz & Dimanche, 1997;Iwazaki & Havitz, 1998;Bricker & Kerstetter, 2000;Gentner & Sutton, 2008). Shelby & Vaske (1991), who studied salmon anglers in New Zealand, found that few salmon anglers were willing to substitute their preferred river with other nearby rivers with similar attributes, a finding that partly echo a place-dimension going beyond a "rational" consideration of attributes, motives, satisfaction and outcomes.…”

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“…Recreationists might experience changes that influence their activities and the benefits they are seeking. The concept of substitution has been applied within frames of sociopsychological or economic theories suggesting that when recreationists experience constraints or changes that affect their outcome, they will look for alternative strategies that will enable them to resemble as much as possible of the outcomes they seek (Brunson & Shelby, 1993;Gentner & Sutton, 2008). Typically, one river locality for kayaking might be substituted with another, or fishing for one species might be replaced by fishing for a different one.…”

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“…In addition, they might also establish more affective bonds to rivers they actively use, labeled place attachment (Bricker & Kerstetter, 2000;Vorkinn & Riese, 2001). The concept of recreation substitution has been used to understand how recreationists make choices and try to adapt or cope when they are faced with changes in their recreational landscape, including hydro power development (Shelby & Vaske, 1991;Gentner & Sutton, 2008). Recreationists might experience changes that influence their activities and the benefits they are seeking.…”

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“…Recreationists make several tradeoffs in their choice of activities and places to perform them, including assessing impacts from hydro-power. These tradeoffs and the main alternatives have within the recreation literature typically been analyzed within the framework of substitution (Shelby & Vaske, 1991;Gentner & Sutton, 2008).…”

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Strategic and temporal substitution among anglers and white-water kayakers: The case of an urban regulated river

Aas

Onstad

2013

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism

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Temporal and strategic substitution among river recreationists 2 AbstractUrban recreational landscapes, including rivers, are subject to increased pressure and more dynamic use. Recreationists apply a range of behavioral strategies to maintain as much as possible of their preferred experiences and outcomes in changing environments. While resource and activity substitution have been subject to several studies, less is known about strategic and temporal substitution. We studied how whitewater kayakers and anglers applied such strategies to cope with a highly variable river environment due to hydro-peaking, a production scheme expecting to become more common to adapt hydro power to other sources of renewable energy. A range of behavioral strategies including ad-hoc and planned temporal substitution, tactical and spatial substitution were identified, making recreationists better able to cope with the unpredictable river. While kayakers used mostly temporal and spatial substitution, anglers also applied tactical substitution such as changed gear and tackle, and improved their skills specifically aimed at unfavorable conditions. Future research should seek to eventually confirm and expand the identified categories of temporal and strategic substitution, for other activities and in other countries and regions. Management implicationsThe study highlights a range of cost-effective, yet useful mitigation alternatives that are highly relevant as many countries currently are reviewing their policies and licenses for hydro power. There is an increased focus on renewable, climate friendly energy, and the need to combine different types of renewables put special focus on hydro-peaking from impoundment facilities. Parallel to this, many countries are conducting processes of relicensing, which launch opportunities to better address multifunctional aspects of regulated rivers and reduce negative impacts of hydro-power. Increased and formalized contact between users, better information and physical modifications were all highly relevant mitigating measures that would enhance the suitability of the study area for recreation, within the existing regulation regime, several of these measures specifically improving temporal substitution.

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Section: Theory: Substitution As Behavioral Responses To Regulation Amentioning

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Section: Theory: Substitution As Behavioral Responses To Regulation Amentioning

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Strategic and temporal substitution among anglers and white-water kayakers: The case of an urban regulated river

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How ecological processes shape the outcomes of stock enhancement and harvest regulations in recreational fisheries

Johnston

Allen

Beardmore

et al. 2018

Ecological Applications

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Fish stocking and harvest regulations are frequently used to maintain or enhance freshwater recreational fisheries and contribute to fish conservation. However, their relative effectiveness has rarely been systematically evaluated using quantitative models that account for key size- and density-dependent ecological processes and adaptive responses of anglers. We present an integrated model of freshwater recreational fisheries where the population dynamics of two model species affect the effort dynamics of recreational anglers. With this model, we examined how stocking various fish densities and sizes (fry, fingerlings, and adults) performed relative to minimum-length limits using a variety of biological, social, and economic performance measures, while evaluating trade-offs. Four key findings are highlighted. First, stocking often augmented the exploited fish population, but size- and density-dependent bottlenecks limited the number of fry and fingerlings surviving to a catchable size in self-sustaining populations. The greatest enhancement of the catchable fish population occurred when large fish that escaped early bottlenecks were stocked, but this came at the cost of wild-stock replacement, thereby demonstrating a fundamental trade-off between fisheries benefits and conservation. Second, the relative performance of stocking naturally reproducing populations was largely independent of habitat quality and was generally low. Third, stocking was only economically advisable when natural reproduction was impaired or absent, stocking rates were low, and enough anglers benefitted from stocking to offset the associated costs. Fourth, in self-sustaining fish populations, minimum-length limits generally outperformed stocking when judged against a range of biological, social and economic objectives. By contrast, stocking in culture-based fisheries often generated substantial benefits. Collectively, our study demonstrates that size- and density-dependent processes, and broadly the degree of natural recruitment, drive the biological, social, and economic outcomes of popular management actions in recreational fisheries. To evaluate these outcomes and the resulting trade-offs, integrated fisheries-management models that explicitly consider the feedbacks among ecological and social processes are needed.

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Angler Attitudes Explain Disparate Behavioral Reactions to Fishery Regulations

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Recreational fishery management poses unique challenges as diverse user groups often maintain disparate attitudes and behaviors, limiting our ability to predict how fishing mortality may change under future regulatory conditions. We surveyed Striped Bass Morone saxatilis anglers from multiple coastal Atlantic states to explore how potential policies may change fishing behavior, assess angler motivations and catch‐related attitudes, and determine whether attitudes correlate with intended behavior. Results revealed that rule changes fundamentally changed effort allocation, whereby participants often shifted fishing effort to other saltwater species. However, disparate groups of anglers responded quite differently to potential policies. Importantly, differences in participant attitudes about fishing, such as how much they value keeping fish, were important predictors of intended behavior. Overall, our study illustrates how behavior, and thus fishing mortality, may shift under future management scenarios, and that an understanding of the characteristics of recreational fishing populations may help to predict the directionality and magnitude of these changes.

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Substitution in Recreational Fishing

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Strategic and temporal substitution among anglers and white-water kayakers: The case of an urban regulated river

Strategic and temporal substitution among anglers and white-water kayakers: The case of an urban regulated river

How ecological processes shape the outcomes of stock enhancement and harvest regulations in recreational fisheries

Angler Attitudes Explain Disparate Behavioral Reactions to Fishery Regulations

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