Journal
JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY
Volume 85, Issue 6, Pages 1843-1867Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/jfb.12546
Keywords
brown trout; carp; pike; rainbow trout; stated preference; zander
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- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) [01UU0907]
- German Research Foundation (DFG) [AR 712/4-1]
- North Temperate Lakes Long Term Ecological Research project (NTL-LTER)
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To answer the question, whether anglers have an intrinsic preference for stocking or a preference for catch outcomes (e.g. catch rates) believed to be maintained by stocking, a discrete choice experiment was conducted among a sample of anglers (n = 1335) in Lower Saxony, Germany. After controlling for catch aspects of the fishing experience, no significant influence of two stocking attributes (stocking frequency and composition of the catch in terms of wild v. hatchery fishes) on the utility gained from fishing was found for any of the freshwater species that were studied. It was concluded that the previously documented large appreciation of fish stocking by anglers may be indicative of an underlying preference for sufficiently high catches rather than reflect an intrinsic preference for stocking or the catching of wild fishes per se.
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