dc.contributor.author | Thurstan, RH | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckley, S | |
dc.contributor.author | Pandolfi, JM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-06-04T08:30:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-06-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Recreational fishing has taken place for centuries and is a globally popular activity, yet a lack of monitoring data means historical trends in recreational fisheries are often little understood compared to their commercial counterparts. We examined archival sources and conducted fisher interviews to examine changes in the Queensland recreational snapper (Chrysophrys auratus) fishery throughout its documented history. Over a 140-year period, we extracted data on technological innovations, catch rate trends, and social and regulatory change. Technological innovations were evident throughout the history of the recreational fishery. During the 1960s, 1990s and 2000s, several periods of rapid technological transition occurred, where a technology was adopted by >50% of recreational fishers within 10 years of its introduction. Since the 1960s, the timing and rate of adoption of fish-finding technology by recreational fishers has kept pace with the commercial sector. These technological advances have profoundly increased recreational targeting ability, but despite these advances, recalled recreational catch rate trends demonstrated significant declines over the course of the 20th century. While minimum size limits have been imposed on the snapper fishery for over a century, in contrast, the introduction of recreational in-possession limits only commenced in the 1990s. At this time, the beginnings of a societal transition was also observed, where longstanding ‘take all’ attitudes towards fishing began to be replaced by a more conservation minded ethic. This shift was driven in part by the changing regulatory landscape, as well as wider attitudinal change influenced by the media and shifting societal norms, although whether this led to a reduction in total recreational catch remains unclear due to a lack of fishery-wide monitoring data and the open access nature of the recreational fishery. This study demonstrates that in the absence of systematic data collection, archival sources and fisher interviews can contribute an interdisciplinary knowledge base for understanding and interpreting historical fishery trends. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | RT, SB and JP were supported by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies. Fieldwork costs were supported by the University of Queensland’s New Staff Start-Up Fund, awarded to RT, and the Fisheries Research Development Corporation (FRDC) on behalf of the Australian Government, report 2013-018 "Using commercial and recreational fisher knowledge to reconstruct historical catch rates for Queensland pink snapper (Pagrus auratus) and Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus commerson): long-term data for incorporation into future stock assessments”. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 52, pp. 22-36. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2018.06.002 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/33059 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | en_GB |
dc.rights.embargoreason | Under embargo until 09 June 2019 in compliance with publisher policy. | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. | |
dc.subject | amateur fishing | en_GB |
dc.subject | fishers’ ecological knowledge | en_GB |
dc.subject | fishing power | en_GB |
dc.subject | historical ecology | en_GB |
dc.subject | Pagrus auratus | en_GB |
dc.title | Trends and transitions observed in an iconic recreational fishery across 140 years | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.identifier.issn | 0959-3780 | |
dc.description | This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Elsevier via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Global Environmental Change | en_GB |