Changes in angler demography and angling patterns during the Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020 measured through a citizen science platform

From 11 March to end of May 2020 a lockdown was imposed in Denmark due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Concurrently a 20% increase in sales of mandatory national angling licenses was reported in Denmark, suggesting an increase in angling participation. Here, we use data collected from a citizen science pl...

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Autores principales: Gundelund, Casper, Skov, Christian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8423404/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34511704
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104602
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description From 11 March to end of May 2020 a lockdown was imposed in Denmark due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Concurrently a 20% increase in sales of mandatory national angling licenses was reported in Denmark, suggesting an increase in angling participation. Here, we use data collected from a citizen science platform for recreational anglers to a) explore whether the increase in participation affected multiple characteristics of the anglers that registered to the citizen science platform in spring 2020, and b) explore changes in angling effort and catch patterns during the lockdown as reported to the platform. The results indicate that the platform was able to detect changes in the characteristics of the participants in the Danish recreational angling during the Covid-19 lockdown, i.e. participants were younger, more likely to live in urban areas, less experienced, stated angling as a less important hobby, and less likely to be from outside of Denmark. The spring 2020 participants did not conduct more fishing trips compared to previous years, but their effort patterns differed. The effort patterns revealed a shift in fishing activity from weekend to weekday and, during the day, a shift in fishing activity from midday to early evening. These changes most likely reflect the extraordinary conditions that most Danes experienced during the lockdown. We found relatively lower catch rates and a trend towards retaining more fish, among the participants that registered in spring 2020. The results are discussed in relation to biological implications and lessons learned about data collection from citizen science platforms.
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spelling pubmed-84234042021-09-08 Changes in angler demography and angling patterns during the Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020 measured through a citizen science platform Gundelund, Casper Skov, Christian Mar Policy Article From 11 March to end of May 2020 a lockdown was imposed in Denmark due to the Covid-19 outbreak. Concurrently a 20% increase in sales of mandatory national angling licenses was reported in Denmark, suggesting an increase in angling participation. Here, we use data collected from a citizen science platform for recreational anglers to a) explore whether the increase in participation affected multiple characteristics of the anglers that registered to the citizen science platform in spring 2020, and b) explore changes in angling effort and catch patterns during the lockdown as reported to the platform. The results indicate that the platform was able to detect changes in the characteristics of the participants in the Danish recreational angling during the Covid-19 lockdown, i.e. participants were younger, more likely to live in urban areas, less experienced, stated angling as a less important hobby, and less likely to be from outside of Denmark. The spring 2020 participants did not conduct more fishing trips compared to previous years, but their effort patterns differed. The effort patterns revealed a shift in fishing activity from weekend to weekday and, during the day, a shift in fishing activity from midday to early evening. These changes most likely reflect the extraordinary conditions that most Danes experienced during the lockdown. We found relatively lower catch rates and a trend towards retaining more fish, among the participants that registered in spring 2020. The results are discussed in relation to biological implications and lessons learned about data collection from citizen science platforms. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Ltd. 2021-09 2021-05-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8423404/ /pubmed/34511704 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2021.104602 Text en © 2021 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_full Changes in angler demography and angling patterns during the Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020 measured through a citizen science platform
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title_full_unstemmed Changes in angler demography and angling patterns during the Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020 measured through a citizen science platform
title_short Changes in angler demography and angling patterns during the Covid-19 lockdown in spring 2020 measured through a citizen science platform
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