Source, fate and management of recreational fishing marine debris

AR Watson, C Blount, DP McPhee, D Zhang… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine debris, directly and indirectly, threatens marine habitat and biota. Fishing activity is
generally recognised as a contributor to marine debris, but the relative input from …

Muddying the waters: What urban waterways reveal about bluespaces and wellbeing

H Pitt - Geoforum, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper urges geographies of waterscapes beyond the blue to consider brown, grey and
green waters, demonstrating the value of remembering water is not everywhere always the …

Fishing participation, motivators and barriers among UK anglers with disabilities: opportunities and implications for green social prescribing

RK Lindsay, C Carmichael, PM Allen, M Fossey… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Green social prescribing, which includes the referral of patients to nature-based activities,
could exacerbate inequalities between people with disabilities and people without …

Mental health and recreational angling in UK adult males: a cross-sectional study

JJ Wilson, M Trott, MA Tully, RK Lindsay, M Fossey… - Epidemiologia, 2023 - mdpi.com
Exposure to aquatic environments (ie, blue spaces) can lead to improved mental health and
well-being. One meaningful way to spend time in blue spaces is through recreational …

Size matters: predation of fish eggs and larvae by native and invasive amphipods

NG Taylor, AM Dunn - Biological Invasions, 2017 - Springer
Invasive predators can have dramatic impacts on invaded communities. Extreme declines in
macroinvertebrate populations often follow killer shrimp (Dikerogammarus villosus) …

The comfort of the river: understanding the affective geographies of angling waterscapes in young people's coping practices

N Djohari, A Brown, P Stolk - Children's Geographies, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper draws on ethnographic research with angling intervention programmes working
with 'disaffected'young people in the UK to demonstrate how young people use the affective …

Perspective of Sustainable Rural Tourism in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK): Comparative Study of β and σ Convergence in the …

GI Butnaru, AP Haller - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Tourism is an activity which globally develops proportionally with the evolution of progress.
The opportunities we enjoy are bigger than ever, but their price should be lowered in order …

More-than-human encounters with fish in the City: from careful angling practice to deadly indifference

T Mordue, S Wilson - Leisure Studies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Angling is an immensely significant leisure practice that provides an important window onto
the variable and selective ways humans value animals, and on how humans and animals …

A 10-year descriptive analysis of UK Maritime and Coastguard data on lifejacket use and drowning prevention

K Pointer, GS Milligan, KL Garratt, SP Clark, MJ Tipton - Safety science, 2018 - Elsevier
The study investigated if incidences of death by drowning in the UK could have been
prevented through the use of lifejackets over a ten year period. This study was a …

Recreational angling tournaments: participants' expenditures

J Curtis, S Hynes, P O'Reilly, B Breen - Journal of Sport & Tourism, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Fishing tournaments are a common feature in recreational angling across a wide range of
target species in both fresh and salt waters. Tournaments are organised for a number of …