Sales of Texas fishing licenses have declined since 1988. Several authors have suggested that this decline is related to changes in the demographic characteristics of the Texas population, including increasing urbanization. As urban residents have been shown to participate in fishing less frequently than rural residents, the population of Texas residents most likely to engage in angling has declined accordingly. Based on these population trends, urban resident anglers (urban anglers) may represent the future of fishing. Information on urban anglers‟ demographic characteristics, motivations for fishing and consumptive orientation may be used to tailor and modify programs and policies targeting urban anglers. The purpose of this thesis was to identify differences between urban and rural anglers and to determine if the two groups were distinct from so-called average anglers. The thesis utilized data from the 2002 Statewide Survey of Texas Anglers. The independent variable, residency, was determined on the basis of United States Census Bureau criteria. Dependent variables included demographic variables (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity, and income), motivations for fishing, and consumptive orientation. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Kruskal-Wallis tests were used to compare mean ii scores among the three groups. The study found differences among urban anglers, rural anglers, and anglers in general in terms of their demographic variables, motivations for fishing, and consumptive orientation. The thesis also shows that by managing resources for average anglers, agencies may be ignoring important (and growing) constituencies.

Ongoing urbanization and the demand for food, water and recreation influence the sustainability of blue urban spaces. Fishery is a prominent use of urban blue space and can cause pressure on urban nature, its water bodies and fish. This growing pressure requires more attention to how urban dwellers use and value this space and requests smart fishing management for urban areas. To improve knowledge on how to realise sustainable urban fishing, this thesis used an interview study in the city of Hamburg in Germany. Six fishers, two representatives of fishing clubs and one representative of the fishing club association, were interviewed, and the results were combined with observations during one and a half weeks of field study and literature review. The study shows that Germany uses a distinctive approach regarding fishing management with a general ban on catch-and-release and strict regulations. Since fishing law is a state law, the federal state of Hamburg is responsible for its fishing management. The main managing tool is the new fishing law from 2019, developed with scientists and stakeholders to improve fishing in an ethical and sustainable way. The stakeholder’s different impacts on and interests in the rivers of Hamburg have to be respected and are shown in this thesis. The study concludes that management practices have to be managed adaptive to consider changing environmental conditions. Generic fishing management practices (e.g., education of fishers) are limited, while most have to be individually adapted for the environment and fishing culture (e.g., fish protection).

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T18:15:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ronaldo Florido de Oliveira.pdf: 3990126 bytes, checksum: 6a7d116ff63d7e815624283e9a9692ad (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-09-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This dissertation had for objective to search the paper of the fishing in the daily one of the City of São Paulo, under the perspective of the conservation of the landscape geographic in a productive model and sustainable of occupation of the ground and the natural resources, in the current and historical time of the fishing urban. In this direction, the study of establishments of the type feefishing , that they had been created in small farms located in surroundings of the São Paulo metropolis, have for purpose, the attainment of data that make possible an analysis of the geographic space, in order to consider the creation of projects that they allow a new use of public and private areas, and that they are come back to the improvement of the ambient quality in the urban centers. For in such a way, data searched had been systemize of way quantitative and qualitative in graphs and tables, what appreciation guaranteed detailed of establishments searched and of its proprietors and frequentadores, what allowing to conclude that these feefishing had started to be a viable alternative for refuncionalização and conservation of urban and agricultural spaces, as much in public areas, as in particular areas / Esta dissertação teve por objetivo pesquisar o papel dos pesqueiros no cotidiano da Cidade de São Paulo, sob a perspectiva da conservação da paisagem geográfica em um modelo produtivo e sustentável de ocupação do solo e dos recursos naturais, no tempo atual e histórico da pesca urbana. Neste sentido, o estudo de estabelecimentos do tipo pesque-pague , que foram criados em sítios localizados no entorno da metrópole paulista, teve por finalidade, a obtenção de dados que possibilitou uma análise do espaço geográfico, a fim de propor a criação de projetos que permitam um novo uso de áreas públicas e privadas, e que estejam voltados à melhoria da qualidade ambiental nos centros urbanos. Para tanto, os dados pesquisados foram sistematizados de maneira quantitativa e qualitativa em gráficos e tabelas, o que garantiu uma apreciação detalhada dos estabelecimentos pesquisados e de seus proprietários e frequentadores, permitindo concluir que esses pesqueiros passaram a ser uma alternativa viável para a refuncionalização e a conservação de espaços urbanos e rurais, tanto em áreas públicas, como em áreas particulares