Trends in Inland Commercial Fisheries in the United States

Murray, Devin N.; Bunnell, David B.; Rogers, Mark W.; Lynch, Abigail J.; Beard, T. Douglas; Funge-Smith, S.

doi:10.1002/fsh.10483

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“…In another case, analysis of commercial inland fish catches in the USA revealed that the commercial inland fish catches of several interior states were not incorporated into routine national reports of inland fish catch. The revised commercial inland catch was nearly double that reported (Murray et al, 2020).…”

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Putting the fish into inland fisheries – A global allocation of historic inland fish catch

2023

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Inland waters support the livelihoods of up to 820 million people and provide fisheries that make an essential contribution towards food security, particularly in the developing world where 90% of inland fisheries catch is consumed. Despite their importance, inland fisheries are overlooked in favour of other water use sectors deemed more economically important. Inland fisheries are also driven by external factors such as climate change and habitat loss, which impedes our ability to manage them sustainably. Using a river basin approach to allocate fish catch, we have provided an integrated picture of how different inland water bodies contribute to global inland fisheries catches. There is a substantial amount of information available on inland fisheries, but it has never been synthesised to build this global picture. Fishery statistics from river basins, lakes, floodplains, hydrobasins, and countries covering a time span from 1960–2018 were analysed. Collation of basin‐scale fisheries statistics suggests a global inland catch of ≈17.4 million tonnes (PSE = ±3.93 million tonnes) in 2010, considerably more than the 10.8 million tonnes published by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), but in line with estimates based on household consumption. The figure is considered a likely maximum due to recent reductions in catches because of closures, threats, and fisheries declines in the most productive fisheries. It is recommended that sentinel fisheries, which are important for food provision, employment, or where threats facing a fishery could cause a deterioration in catch, are identified to provide the baseline for a global monitoring programme.

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confidence: 71%

Putting the fish into inland fisheries – A global allocation of historic inland fish catch

2023

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“…The inland commercial fisheries (except for the Great Lakes) clearly exist in an administrative funding gap, a situation existing perhaps since their inception. Our evaluation of recent reviews of inland U.S. harvest (Murray et al 2020) and Mississippi River commercial harvests (Klein et al 2018) provide us with no evidence that the historical data collected for most inland commercial fisheries other than the Great Lakes are adequate for anything but the most cursory assessment of the fisheries or stocks; conclusions drawn by the authors were appropriately very modest. The data are grossly inadequate for native species stock assessments.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…States and their working groups (AFWA, MICRA, etc.) can work with federal fisheries management agencies such as the USFWS to compile accurate and meaningful statistics at a national level for national and international publication by organizations such as NOAA Fisheries (Murray et al 2020).…”

Section: A Necessary Next Step To Native Underappreciated Species Conservation: Inland Commercial Fisheries Monitoringmentioning

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“…This article involves four aspects of modern inland fisheries management in the United States: the development and well‐documented success of the Federal Aid in Sport Fish Restoration Act (often called the Dingell–Johnson Act ) and its amendments (hereafter Sport Fish Restoration Program; Sousa 1982; Ross and Loomis 1999; American Fisheries Society 2000); the development of bowfishing and its rapid ascendancy into a modern sport (Scarnecchia and Schooley 2020); emerging conservation issues with underappreciated native species (Lackmann et al 2019; Scarnecchia and Schooley 2020); and the importance of adequate state monitoring of inland commercial fisheries in the United States (Murray et al 2020). Of the four, the first topic, the Sport Fish Restoration Program, is widely recognized as a valued funding source for fisheries research, propagation, and management, with a strong 70‐year record of success (Lukens 1992; McMullin 2000; Peterson et al 2000).…”

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The Sport Fish Restoration Program as a Funding Source to Manage and Monitor Bowfishing and Monitor Inland Commercial Fisheries

Scarnecchia

Schooley²,

Lackmann

et al. 2021

Fisheries

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The Sport Fish Restoration Program (SFR) has been a stable and highly successful funding program supporting state fisheries research, propagation, and management activities since its inception in 1950. The expanding sport of bowfishing in the past 2 decades, and research over a comparable time period showing very long lifespans of underappreciated native fish species, opens the door to some new ways to classify, manage, and fund monitoring of these natives under the SFR program, while encouraging sport and commercial take of invasives. Evidence from bowfishing and from changes in angling patterns for some nongame species indicates that the time has come to consider reclassifying underappreciated native species into some form of sport status (entirely separate from non‐native invasives) and thereby potentially expanding the scope of species projects financed with SFR funds. Reclassification will also function to upgrade the status of underappreciated native species taken within agencies, with bowfishers and anglers, and with the public. It then opens the door to improved, and necessary, monitoring of inland commercial fisheries (often targeting the same species), an activity which has needed improvement and a reliable funding source for decades. We suggest that our approach is a comparatively straightforward one that is scientifically defensible and implementable within the existing state–federal management jurisdictions and institutions.

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“…However, buffalofishes remain common species in the commercial fisheries of the United States (Murray et al. 2020) and are increasingly being pursued by bowfishing anglers, with concerns of wanton waste surfacing (Scarnecchia and Schooley 2020; Scarnecchia et al. 2021).…”

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Validation and Comparison of Age Estimates for Smallmouth Buffalo in Oklahoma Based on Otoliths, Pectoral Fin Rays, and Opercula

Long

Snow²,

Shoup

et al. 2023

N American J Fish Manag

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With an increased interest in nongame fishes such as buffalofishes (Catostomidae, Ictiobus), there is a need for better foundational data on their life history. Bigmouth Buffalo I. cyprinellus, for example, have been found to live for more than a century. Age estimates for other sucker species have similarly suggested long life spans, but validation studies as reference points are often lacking. We conducted a 3-year study on Smallmouth Buffalo I. bubalus in Oklahoma to validate annual increments on three hard part structures (otoliths [lapilli], pectoral fin rays, and opercula) typically used for age estimation. We marked wild fish with oxytetracycline (OTC) injection and stocked those fish into a hatchery pond to create a population of fish with known times since marking. Furthermore, reproduction in the pond allowed us to validate annulus formation in young fish. We analyzed 117 fish and found that otoliths were more reliable, precise, and accurate than the other two structures for detecting OTC marks and counting annuli. Age estimates, from 1 to 61 years, were greatest when otoliths were used, with 99% of estimates corresponding to known time since marking or known age. Otoliths appear to be the only reliable structure for accurately estimating the age of Smallmouth Buffalo within 1 year of actual age, and their use indicates that this species can live for more than six decades in Oklahoma.Buffalofishes (Catostomidae, Ictiobus) are becoming increasingly recognized for their intrinsic roles in the ecosystem (Rypel et al. 2021;Scarnecchia et al. 2021), such as altering water quality (Goetz et al. 2014) and serving as hosts for freshwater mussels (Freshwater Mussel Host Database 2017). Despite this, buffalofishes have historically been viewed as nuisance species that compete for resources with popular sport fish, and their numbers have

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Trends in Inland Commercial Fisheries in the United States

Abstract: Blue Catfish Ictalurus furcatus caught in a commercial net.

Cited by 8 publications

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Putting the fish into inland fisheries – A global allocation of historic inland fish catch

Putting the fish into inland fisheries – A global allocation of historic inland fish catch

The Sport Fish Restoration Program as a Funding Source to Manage and Monitor Bowfishing and Monitor Inland Commercial Fisheries

Validation and Comparison of Age Estimates for Smallmouth Buffalo in Oklahoma Based on Otoliths, Pectoral Fin Rays, and Opercula

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