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COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior
Recreational angling in the United States (US) is largely a personal hobby that scales up to a multibillion-dollar economic activity. Given dramatic changes to personal decisions and behaviors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, we surveyed recreational anglers across the US to understand how the...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34407076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254652 |
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author | Midway, Stephen R. Lynch, Abigail J. Peoples, Brandon K. Dance, Michael Caffey, Rex |
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description | Recreational angling in the United States (US) is largely a personal hobby that scales up to a multibillion-dollar economic activity. Given dramatic changes to personal decisions and behaviors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, we surveyed recreational anglers across the US to understand how the pandemic may have affected their fishing motivations and subsequent activities. Nearly a quarter million anglers from 10 US states were invited to participate in the survey, and almost 18,000 responded. Anglers reported numerous effects of the pandemic, including fishing access restrictions. Despite these barriers, we found that the amount of fishing in the spring of 2020 was significantly greater—by about 0.2 trips per angler—than in non-pandemic springs. Increased fishing is likely associated with our result that most respondents considered recreational angling to be a COVID-19 safe activity. Nearly a third of anglers reported changing their motivation for fishing during the pandemic, with stress relief being more popular during the pandemic than before. Driven partly by the perceived safety of social fishtancing, recreational angling remained a popular activity for many US anglers during spring 2020. |
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spelling | pubmed-83729552021-08-19 COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior Midway, Stephen R. Lynch, Abigail J. Peoples, Brandon K. Dance, Michael Caffey, Rex PLoS One Research Article Recreational angling in the United States (US) is largely a personal hobby that scales up to a multibillion-dollar economic activity. Given dramatic changes to personal decisions and behaviors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, we surveyed recreational anglers across the US to understand how the pandemic may have affected their fishing motivations and subsequent activities. Nearly a quarter million anglers from 10 US states were invited to participate in the survey, and almost 18,000 responded. Anglers reported numerous effects of the pandemic, including fishing access restrictions. Despite these barriers, we found that the amount of fishing in the spring of 2020 was significantly greater—by about 0.2 trips per angler—than in non-pandemic springs. Increased fishing is likely associated with our result that most respondents considered recreational angling to be a COVID-19 safe activity. Nearly a third of anglers reported changing their motivation for fishing during the pandemic, with stress relief being more popular during the pandemic than before. Driven partly by the perceived safety of social fishtancing, recreational angling remained a popular activity for many US anglers during spring 2020. Public Library of Science 2021-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8372955/ /pubmed/34407076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254652 Text en https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced, distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any lawful purpose. The work is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) public domain dedication. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Midway, Stephen R. Lynch, Abigail J. Peoples, Brandon K. Dance, Michael Caffey, Rex COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior |
title | COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior |
title_full | COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior |
title_fullStr | COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior |
title_full_unstemmed | COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior |
title_short | COVID-19 influences on US recreational angler behavior |
title_sort | covid-19 influences on us recreational angler behavior |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8372955/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34407076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0254652 |
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