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Fishing for Food: Quantifying Recreational Fisheries Harvest in Wisconsin Lakes

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Embke, H.S., Douglas Beard, T., Jr, Lynch, A.J. and Vander Zanden, M.J. (2020), Fishing for Food: Quantifying Recreational Fisheries Harvest in Wisconsin Lakes. Fisheries, 45: 647-655. https://doi.org/10.1002/fsh.10486

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Abstract (from Fisheries Magazine): Recreational fisheries have high economic worth, valued at US$190 billion globally. An important, but underappreciated, secondary value of recreational catch is its role as a source of food. This contribution is poorly understood due to difficulty in estimating recreational harvest at spatial scales beyond a single system, as traditionally estimated from individual creel surveys. Here, we address this gap using 28‐year creel surveys of ~300 Wisconsin inland lakes. We develop a statistical model of recreational harvest for individual lakes and then scale‐up to unsurveyed lakes (3,769 lakes; 73% of statewide lake surface area). We generate a statewide estimate of recreational lake harvest of ~4,200 [...]

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  • National CASC
  • National and Regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers

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