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Gundelund, Casper, Venturelli, Paul, Hartill, Bruce W., Hyder, Kieran 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1428-5679, Olesen, Hans Jakob and Skov, Christian
(2021)
Evaluation of a citizen science platform for collecting fisheries data from coastal sea trout anglers.
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 78 (11).
pp. 1576-1585.
ISSN 0706-652X
Abstract
There are often limited data available to support the sustainable management of recreational fisheries. Electronic citizen science platforms (e.g., smartphone applications) offer a cost-effective alternative to traditional survey methods — but these data must be validated. We compared sea trout (Salmo trutta) data from a Danish citizen science platform with three independent traditional surveys: a roving creel survey, an aerial survey, and a recall survey. The comparisons include fisheries data (e.g., catch, release, effort, and fish size structure) and demographic descriptors (e.g., age) that were collected within the same spatial and temporal frame. We found general alignment between recreational sea trout catch and effort data that were provided by citizen scientists, or collected by more traditional survey methods. Our results demonstrate that citizen science data have the potential to supplement traditional surveys, or act as an alternative source of catch and effort data. However, results were from a highly specialized fishery within a limited spatial and temporal frame, so more research is needed to assess their relevance over time and to a broader set of fisheries.
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| Additional Information: | Funding Information: C.G. and C.S. received financial support by the Danish Rod and Net Fish License funds and CS and HJO received funding from EMFF (European Marine Fisheries Funds) “Improving the basis for managing recreational fish stocks” (2016–2018). We thank the ICES working group WGRFS and, in particular, Jon Helge Vølstad and Jeremy Lyle for fruitful discussions and valuable input to the design of the roving creel survey and the three reviewers who provided very beneficial input to a previous version of this manuscript. We also sincerely thank the citizen scientists who provided data for this study. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Authors. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics,aquatic science,sdg 14 - life below water ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1100/1105 |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Nov 2023 03:21 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Nov 2023 03:07 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93777 |
| DOI: | 10.1139/cjfas-2020-0364 |
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