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Under Pressure: Study Finds that Fishing, Not Warming, is Currently Having a Greater Impact on Our Recreational Fisheries

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By Adam Hinterthuer – A new study has found that, when it comes to our freshwater fisheries, recreational anglers currently have a greater impact on fish populations than climate change. And that may be good news, says the study’s lead author, Luoliang Xu, because, faced with warming waters around the world, “local fishery management becomes …

Study Finds That, In Wisconsin, Eating Local Often Involves a Rod and Reel

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Call it the “lake-to-table” movement. A new study in the journal Fisheries looked at the fish-harvesting habits of the million-plus anglers who annually fish Wisconsin lakes. What they found is that, armed with little more than a rod and reel, Wisconsin anglers are really good at bringing home the bacon – or, rather, fillet. Federal …