Fisheries Management and Ecology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 4, 2025

ABSTRACT The growing popularity of digital catch logs may present a low‐cost opportunity to monitor climate change effects on the distribution and relative abundance game fishes over large spatial scales. We analyzed data from popular fishing app identify spatiotemporal trends in freshwater fish catches throughout contiguous United States during 2015–2021. Warm‐water species became more common than cool‐water many locations. Increases tended occur northern range boundaries or non‐native ranges, declines at southern boundaries. Although log can be biased results reflect alternative phenomena operating interacting similarly scales (e.g., cultural eutrophication, changes popularity), remains viable explanation. Future research should further explore as potential tool for monitoring responses other stressors longer time frames multiple

Язык: Английский