Volume 65
Changes in Recreational Tournament Fishing as a Result of New Regulations for Recreational Fishing in Puerto Rico
Authors
Rodríguez-Ferrer, Y. G. Rodríguez-Ferrer, and C. Lilyestrom Download PDF Open PDF in BrowserOther Information
Date: November, 2012
Pages: 530
Event: Proceedings of the Sixty-Fifth Annual Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute
City: Santa Marta
Country: Colombia
Abstract
In Puerto Rico, fishing tournaments have been continuously monitored since 2000, by the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources (PR-DNER), Project F-42 Marine Recreational Fishing Statistic Survey. Prior to 2005, fishing tournaments, although monitored, did not have specific regulations for its fishing practices, since then recreational fishing tournaments have experienced changes with the implementation of Law 278 Puerto Rico Fisheries Law, Regulation 6768 Puerto Rico Fishing Regulation and the following amends to the regulation. As a result of these regulations recreational fishing tournament organizers had to change their operational mode, awards given, and adjust their activities to the current and applicable laws. For tournament organizers this represented a new approach to dolphinfish (C. hippurus), wahoo (A. solandri), and mackerel (Scomberomorus spp.) and reef fish tournaments. The implementation of these new regulations resulted in a new management based approach to recreational fishing in Puerto Rico. This poster analyses the consequences of the execution of this law in tournaments in Puerto Rico.