Understanding Recreational Fishers

Fish on! The new book, Understanding Recreational Fishers, brings together experts from the social sciences to explain how recreational fishing can be studied where people and the environment are closely linked. The book is useful for the public, students, social scientists, and ecologists. It’s also helpful for educators designing courses on human dimensions of fish and wildlife management.

USGS researchers at the Cooperative Research Units Program, Kevin Pope, David Fulton, Kelly Robinson, and Brian Irwin, as well as Climate Science Center researchers, Abigail Lynch and Holly Embke contributed chapters to the work. Kevin Pope and Abigail Lynch shared editorial roles with Robert Arlinghaus (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany), Len Hunt (Canada’s Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources), and Brent van Poorten (Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada).