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Recreational Angler Site Choice And Behavior Within Midwestern Reservoirs, Brian S. Harmon
Recreational Angler Site Choice And Behavior Within Midwestern Reservoirs, Brian S. Harmon
School of Natural Resources: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Anglers are the dominant predator in most inland fisheries. Although anglers make decisions across multiple scales, most research targets larger spatial and temporal scales of angler behavior, and thus little is known regarding angler behavior within a fishing trip. Outcomes of within-trip behavior affect larger spatial and temporal scales and are thus important to the management of recreational fisheries. Bank angler site choice was recorded at four reservoirs in the Salt Valley system across the open-water season of 2016. Previous research indicated that angler distribution did not match the distribution of fish, so another approach was taken. Counts of anglers …