Recreational angling tournaments: participants' expenditures

Ranking participants in generalized tournaments

Consider the problem of ranking social alternatives based on the number of voters that prefer one alternative to the other. Or consider the problem of ranking chess players by their past performance. A wide variety of ranking methods have been proposed to deal with these problems. Using six independent axioms, we characterize the fair-bets ranking method proposed by Daniels [4] and Moon and Pul...

Factors Contributing to the Physiological Disturbance in Walleyes during Simulated Live-Release Angling Tournaments

—The goal of the current study was to examine the physiological disturbances in walleyes Sander vitreus that occurred during the different phases of a live-release angling tournament. To achieve this, we took blood and white muscle samples from walleyes during experiments that simulated different aspects of a liverelease tournament (angling, live-well confinement, and weigh-in procedure). In ac...

Is catch-and-release recreational angling compatible with no-take marine protected areas?

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become a common conservation and management tool for reducing exploitation from the commercial and recreational fisheries sectors. However, the recreational fisheries sector has the potential to be compatible with no-take MPAs when catchand-release angling is practiced because, in theory, no fish are actually harvested. This presumes that the effects of catch-...

Maximum size of fish caught with standard gears and recreational angling

We correlated maximum lengths of freshwater fishes captured during 10 years with standard gears (i.e., gill nets, boat electrofishers and trap nets) and angling from Nebraska water bodies to determine which methodology provided better estimates of maximum size of fishes produced within a given water body. In general, maximum length of fishes captured with standard gears was smaller than maximum...

Demographic Predictors of Recreational Tennis Participants’ Sport Commitment