Despite the growing awareness of harmful algal blooms (HABs) in the United States and abroad, estimates of welfare losses due to their presence are missing from the literature. Using a mail survey of 767 Ohio Lake Erie recreational angler respondents and a choice experiment, this study provides...

Recreational fishing in Long Island Sound has been thriving since 1998 and the proportion of recreational and sports fishing has steadily increased over two decades. It interrelates with the regional tourism and recreational sectors as well as its integration of sustainable coastal development...

Using on-site survey data from sea, coarse and game angling sites in Ireland, this paper estimates count data models of recreational angling demand. The models are used to investigate the extent to which anglers are responsive to differences in water quality, with the water quality metric...

Regional economic impacts of fishing and hunting in Finland A state enterprise, Metsähallitus, administers state-owned land and water areas in Finland covering approximately 12 million hectares. One of the official administrative duties of Metsähallitus is to provide hunting and fishing...

Independent experts and politicians have criticized statistical analyses of recreation behavior that rely upon onsite samples due to their potential for biased inference, prompting some to suggest support for these efforts should be curtailed. The use of onsite sampling usually reflects data or...

The purpose of this paper is to establish whether the unobserved spatial interdependencies between individual households influence recreational travel choices. To coherently incorporate spatial interdependencies in the behavioral analysis, we propose spatial random utility model of recreation...