Young people
Angling activity of urban youth: factors associated with fishing in a metropolitan context
Date:
1988
Journal:
Journal of Leisure Research, 20(3), 192-207.
Findings report that urban youth who lived with adults that fished were significantly more likely to be involved with fishing. The study also found that young anglers reported that they enjoyed angling more so that those who fished without adult anglers in the home.
Effects of fishing education programs on antecedents of responsible environmental behaviors
Date:
2001
Journal:
The Journal of Environmental Education, 32(4), 23-29.
The authors surveyed 619 participants in a national fishing education program (Hooked on Fishing-Not on Drugs) designed for youth in Grades 6-8. The survey of the youth assessed fishing and aquatic stewardship outcomes associated with different levels of program exposure (i.e., no program, programs without fishing, and programs with fishing). Youth who participated in programs that included experience-based fishing were more likely to report several desired fishing and stewardship outcomes.
Factors related to hunting and fishing participation among the nation's youth. Phase I: Literature review.
Date:
2003
This study consisted of a literature review on demographic trends and participation in outdoor activities, as well as an analysis of the stages of cognitive development in youth. It is part of wider research into young people's participation in Hunting and Fishing in the US.
Factors related to hunting and fishing participation among the nation's youth. Phase V: Final report.
Date:
2003
This study was conducted to better understand the factors related to hunting and fishing initiation, participation, retention, and desertion among today’s youth 8-18 years old. There were two major objectives of this study. The first objective was to identify the factors involved in the recruitment and retention of the nation’s youth in hunting and fishing. The second objective was to recommend to the fish and wildlife management community programs and strategies to increase participation in hunting and fishing among the nation’s youth and improve the retention of these participants.
Fishing in the Parks: A Research-based Outreach Program
Date:
1998
Journal:
Fisheries 23: 19-27
In 1995 a new research-based fisheries outreach program called Fishing in the Parks began as a university-agency-organization collaboration. The focus of this effort was to understand outreach program participants and to assess whether this program effectively reached the targeted novice-angler segment of families with young children. In 1995 and 1996, surveys were administered to 2,374 adult and youth program participants, and we achieved a 77% overall response rate.
The Trout Unlimited Experience Teaching Aquatic Stewardship to Youth
Date:
2007
Journal:
American Fisheries Society Symposium [Am. Fish. Soc. Symp.]. Vol. 55, pp. 79-84.
Trout Unlimited (TU) is a private, nonprofit organization with more than 150,000 members dedicated to conserving, protecting, and restoring trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds in North America. TU staff and volunteer members engage in education programs, restoration projects, advocacy campaigns, and other conservation activities in support of the organization's mission. In 2001, TU launched a new national initiative named First Cast to teach students the principles of coldwater resource stewardship through the skills of fly-fishing.
Use of two approaches to measure children's motivations to fish in Norway
Date:
1996
Journal:
Human Dimensions of Wildlife, 1(3), 15-28.
This paper reports on the use of two different methods to ascertain why 11- to 16-year-old children fish in Norway. The first method employed open-ended questions to determine what the children liked best and disliked about fishing. The second method used fixed list, multiple-item questions to solicit information about the relative importance to the children of 10 different reasons for fishing. The two studies yielded similar results about the primary reason why children fish, but the second study provided more in-depth information about their multiple motivations.
Using Diaries to Examine Children's Fishing Patterns
Date:
1999
Journal:
North American Journal of Fisheries Management Vol 19: 1103-1107
We used fishing diaries to study the fishing patterns of children who participated in the Sportfishing and Aquatic Resources Education Program in central and western New York in 1996 and explored the related costs and benefits. Besides the financial costs, it was difficult and time-consuming to obtain the names of families with children who fish and to obtain parental permission for the children to participate in the diary project, even though we worked through an established youth fishing organization.
Youth Fishing in Carolina
Date:
2001
This paper was presented at the 56th Annual Conference of the Southeastern Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies held in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2001 and is included in the Conference Proceedings. The paper summarizes the results of the South Carolina Youth Aquatic Study that assessed youths' attitudes toward, opinions on, knowledge of, and priorities toward South Carolina aquatic resources and recreational fishing.
