Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Units Program: Nebraska
Education, Research and Technical Assistance for Managing Our Natural Resources

Nebraska Project

Angler behavior in response to management actions on Nebraska reservoirs

January 2009 - December 2013

Personnel

Participating Agencies

  • Nebraska Game and Parks Commission

Project goals are to understand 1) the participation patterns of anglers on local and regional scales, and 2) how participation patterns of anglers influence fish populations.

Research Publications Publication Date
Pope, K. L., C. R. Allen, and D. G. Angeler. 2014. Fishing for resilience. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 143:467-478. | Download March 2014
Pope, K. L., C. J. Chizinski, C. L. Wiley, and D. R. Martin. 2016. Influence of anglers’ specializations on catch, harvest, and bycatch of targeted taxa. Fisheries Research 183:128-137. | Download June 2016
Martin, D. R., and K. L. Pope. 2011. Luring anglers to enhance fisheries. Journal of Environmental Management 92:1409-1413. | Download May 2011
Martin, D. R., D. Shizuka, C. J. Chizinski, and K. L. Pope. 2017. Network analysis of a regional fishery: implications for management of natural resources, and recruitment and retention of anglers. Fisheries Research 194:31-41. | Download May 2017
Martin, D. R., C. J. Chizinski, and K. L. Pope. 2015. Reservoir area of influence and implications for fisheries management. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 35:185-190. | Download March 2015
Martin, D. R., C. J. Chizinski, K. M. Eskridge, and K. L. Pope. 2014. Using posts to an online social network to assess fishing effort. Fisheries Research 157:24-27. | Download April 2014
Martin, D. R., B. M. Pracheil, J. A. DeBoer, G. R. Wilde, and K. L. Pope. 2012. Using the internet to understand angler behavior in the Information Age. Fisheries (Bethesda) 37:458-463. | Download October 2012
Chizinski, C. J., D. R. Martin, and K. L. Pope. 2014. Self-confidence of anglers in identification of freshwater sport fish. Fisheries Management and Ecology 21:448-453. | Download December 2014
Chizinski, C. J., D. R. Martin, K. L. Pope, T. J. Barada, and J. J. Schuckman. 2014. Angler effort and catch within a spatially complex system of small lakes. Fisheries Research 154:172-178. | Download March 2014
Chizinski, C. J., D. R. Martin, K. L. Hurley, and K. L. Pope. 2014. Self-imposed length limits in recreational fisheries. Fisheries Research 155:83-89. | Download March 2014
Chizinski, C. J., D. R. Martin, C. G. Huber, and K. L. Pope. 2014. The influence of a rapid drawdown and prolonged dewatering on fishing effort, catch, and harvest in a Nebraska reservoir. Great Plains Research 24:145-152. | Download October 2014
Theses and Dissertations Publication Date
Wiley, C. L. 2013. Exploitation of channel catfish in flood-control reservoirs. M.S. thesis. University of Nebraska—Lincoln. August 2013
Spirk, P. J. 2012. Effects of length limits on sexually size dimorphic fishes. M.S. thesis. University of Nebraska—Lincoln. December 2012
Martin, D. R. 2013. Spatial and temporal participation in recreational fishing. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Nebraska—Lincoln. December 2013