Keywords
stock enhancement
angling
fisheries management
angling
fisheries management
Categories
How to Cite
Fisch, Nicholas, Diana Perry, Chelsey Crandall, Nick Trippel, and Edward V. Camp. 2022. “How Stocking Recreational Fisheries Works (and Sometimes Does not): FOR378/FR449, 4/2022”. EDIS 2022 (2). Gainesville, FL. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fr449-2022.
Abstract
Stock enhancement or “stocking” is one of the oldest, most common, and most popular ways of improving recreational fisheries. Stocking is usually supposed to increase the number of fish available for anglers to catch. Unfortunately, stocking doesn’t always do this. The reasons why it may not always work as planned relate to some important concepts of fish ecology. This publication describes those ecological concepts and then also describes the three primary “outcomes” of stocking that anglers might observe. In the end, stocking can be very effective, but only if the stocked fish survive reasonably well and don’t decrease the population of wild fish.
References
Camp, E.V., Lorenzen, K., Ahrens, R.N., Barbieri, L., & Leber, K.M. 2013. Potentials and limitations of stock enhancement in marine recreational fisheries systems: an integrative review of Florida's Red Drum enhancement. Reviews in Fisheries Science, 21(3-4), 388-402. https://doi.org/10.1080/10641262.2013.838075
Camp, E.V., Stout, R., Trippel, N., Fury, J., Whichel, S., & Lorenzen, K. 2019. How to define successful stocking of Florida’s freshwater recreational fisheries. EDIS, 2019(5), 7-7. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa216-2019
Camp, E.V., Collins, A.B., Ahrens, R.N.M, & Lorenzen, K. 2020. Fish Population Recruitment: What Recruitment Means and Why It Matters. EDIS 2020 (2), 6. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa222-2020.
Lorenzen, K., & Camp, E.V. 2019. Density-dependence in the life history of fishes: when is a fish recruited? Fisheries Research, 217, 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.09.024
Trippel, N.A., Porak, W.F., & Leone, E.H. 2018. Poststocking Survival of Conditioned and Pond‐Reared Compared to Indoor Pellet‐Reared Advanced Fingerling Florida Bass. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 38(5), 1039-1049. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10213
Walters, C.J., & Martell, S.J. 2004. Fisheries ecology and management. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214634
Camp, E.V., Stout, R., Trippel, N., Fury, J., Whichel, S., & Lorenzen, K. 2019. How to define successful stocking of Florida’s freshwater recreational fisheries. EDIS, 2019(5), 7-7. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa216-2019
Camp, E.V., Collins, A.B., Ahrens, R.N.M, & Lorenzen, K. 2020. Fish Population Recruitment: What Recruitment Means and Why It Matters. EDIS 2020 (2), 6. https://doi.org/10.32473/edis-fa222-2020.
Lorenzen, K., & Camp, E.V. 2019. Density-dependence in the life history of fishes: when is a fish recruited? Fisheries Research, 217, 5-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2018.09.024
Trippel, N.A., Porak, W.F., & Leone, E.H. 2018. Poststocking Survival of Conditioned and Pond‐Reared Compared to Indoor Pellet‐Reared Advanced Fingerling Florida Bass. North American Journal of Fisheries Management, 38(5), 1039-1049. https://doi.org/10.1002/nafm.10213
Walters, C.J., & Martell, S.J. 2004. Fisheries ecology and management. Princeton University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691214634