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Fish Welfare in Recreational Fishing

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The Welfare of Fish

Part of the book series: Animal Welfare ((AWNS,volume 20))

Abstract

Recreational fishing is a popular activity around the globe, and fish welfare issues related to the activity have received increasing attention in some countries, particularly in central and northern Europe and Australia. This chapter offers an introduction to recreational fishing, reviews literature on fish welfare in relation to recreational fishing and provides an overview of potential biological impacts and ways to reduce such impacts. We first focus on the question on how to reduce impacts on the welfare of the fish during recreational fishing. Second, we describe two case studies highlighting that practical implications of the fish welfare discourse may be disjointed from the scientific information base and be rather about fundamental moral questions about the ethical acceptability of the activity per se. We end by providing an outlook on the future of recreational fishing in the light of the current fish welfare discourse.

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    Keno Ferter, Odd-Børre Humborstad & Jonatan Nilsson

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    Steven J. Cooke

  3. Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Germany and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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Ferter, K., Cooke, S.J., Humborstad, OB., Nilsson, J., Arlinghaus, R. (2020). Fish Welfare in Recreational Fishing. In: Kristiansen, T., Fernö, A., Pavlidis, M., van de Vis, H. (eds) The Welfare of Fish. Animal Welfare, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-41675-1_19

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