The U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat): A Database and Interactive Tool for Inland Fisheries Management and Research
Inland recreational fishing, defined as primarily leisure-driven fishing in freshwaters, is a popular past-time in the USA. State natural resource agencies endeavor to provide high-quality and sustainable fishing opportunities for anglers. Managers often use creel and other angler-survey data to inform state- and waterbody-level management efforts. Despite the broad implementation of angler surveys and their importance to fisheries management at state scales, regional and national coordination among these activities is minimal, limiting data applicability for larger-scale management practices and research.
The goal of this project is to develop and implement the U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat), a first-of-its-kind, publicly available national database of angler-survey data that establishes a baseline of national inland recreational fishing metrics. CreelCat contains metrics related to angler catch, harvest, effort, preferences, and demographics from over 40 states as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. This database is hosted through a web application (https://rconnect.usgs.gov/CreelCat/) that allows users to access the entire dataset, subset based on custom filters, and create a variety of visualizations including maps and plots according to user-defined inputs and specifications.
This project supports: 1) Developing a spatially-explicit model of recreational harvest using remotely-sensed and in-situ environmental data in a Bayesian framework; 3) Projecting the response of recreational harvest with global change (climate and land use); and 4) Collaborating with state managers to institutionalize this exercise, standardize national inland reporting to FAO, among other applications to inform management decisions regarding recreational inland fisheries.
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 5ba160d6e4b08583a5c42d9f)
Inland recreational fishing, defined as primarily leisure-driven fishing in freshwaters, is a popular past-time in the USA. State natural resource agencies endeavor to provide high-quality and sustainable fishing opportunities for anglers. Managers often use creel and other angler-survey data to inform state- and waterbody-level management efforts. Despite the broad implementation of angler surveys and their importance to fisheries management at state scales, regional and national coordination among these activities is minimal, limiting data applicability for larger-scale management practices and research.
The goal of this project is to develop and implement the U.S. Inland Creel and Angler Survey Catalog (CreelCat), a first-of-its-kind, publicly available national database of angler-survey data that establishes a baseline of national inland recreational fishing metrics. CreelCat contains metrics related to angler catch, harvest, effort, preferences, and demographics from over 40 states as well as Washington, D.C. and Puerto Rico. This database is hosted through a web application (https://rconnect.usgs.gov/CreelCat/) that allows users to access the entire dataset, subset based on custom filters, and create a variety of visualizations including maps and plots according to user-defined inputs and specifications.
This project supports: 1) Developing a spatially-explicit model of recreational harvest using remotely-sensed and in-situ environmental data in a Bayesian framework; 3) Projecting the response of recreational harvest with global change (climate and land use); and 4) Collaborating with state managers to institutionalize this exercise, standardize national inland reporting to FAO, among other applications to inform management decisions regarding recreational inland fisheries.
- Source: USGS Sciencebase (id: 5ba160d6e4b08583a5c42d9f)