Your Help Requested for an Anglers Survey

[Grizzly Wulff]

Carlton University of Canada is conducting a Recreational Fishing Survey

Recreational fishing is an activity that occurs around the globe in both
marine and freshwater environments and involves millions of people each
year. Surveys are frequently used to identify important issues among
stakeholders, however, rarely is such information considered on the
continental scale. Understanding how recreational fisheries stakeholders
view issues associated with recreational fishing is important for research
funding, policy development, as well as the implementation of appropriate
management and educational initiatives. As a recreational fisheries
researcher, recreational fisheries manager, or recreational angler, we are
inviting you to fill out a brief (10 minute) survey that will assess your
opinions on key topics concerning recreational fisheries. Your responses
will help us decipher how opinions agree or differ between sectors. All
surveys are confidential and we do not collect or record any information
that would enable us to identify individuals. Furthermore, we will only
report on aggregate findings. If you are interested in the outcome of the
survey, we have developed a website
(http://www.carleton.ca/fecpl/Survey.htm) where we will post the findings at the end of the study. Upon completing the survey, you will have the option to delete all of your responses or submit your completed survey. The survey has been approved by the Carleton University Committee on Research Ethics.

Please feel free to distribute the survey to colleagues.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s....3d_3d For any questions or concerns please email us at
global.rec.fishing@gmail.com. [Please recognize that any correspondence and answers provided by means of e-mail are not secure.]

[crazy4oldcars]

Grizz.
Thanks for posting this. It will be interesting to see what the results are.

Kirk

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

Grizz , it takes a while to fill it all out and at the end they asked for a comment. Which got me thinking. There was no up front mention of the impact of fish farms on wild stocks. The single most important problem on the pacific coast. They danced around it a bit I suppose, but for me that turned me off the whole survey. I submitted it with my comments on fish farming. I hope it does some good but My feeling is most surveys are only quoted if they agree with the quoter. Thanks for posting the link.

[hap]

After getting well into the survey I found troubling comments about PETA type issues, then it turned into some questions that could not be answered with their options, no matter your feelings. For example:

"What are the attitudes of anglers?" To which the only answers are "very important, important, somewhat important, not important, not sure." I gues "not sure" could work but I see nothing else that could possibly answer the question.

Were this part of a real University research project there is no way a real Professor would allow this to get through, IMO&E.

Among the other "questions" are such poorly worded choices as "What are the most vulnerable periods for a fish as it relates to recreational fishing (i.e., spawning, migration, winter, etc.)?" with the same line up of answers as above.

I smell something very fishy.

I am a skeptic, but I have some background...
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[Fly Tyer]

Remember Guys,

Carelton University is a Canadian University. It is actually a pretty decent school. There is a large difference between American and Canadian schools. Namely, Canadian schools are more seperate from the private sector (business). Businesses do not fund research at universities, like they do in other places. That way there is a much lesser of a chance for the survery to be biased. Furthermore, the university Ethics board must verify if a survey is suitable to use. Ethic boards are made up of people from various departments, which have no connection to the contents of the survey.

I really hope the survery will help our waters in some way.

I agree that the way the survery is set up is fishy. My first thought was "a student must have wrote this". The email is a "gmail" account, not a Carleton University account....

[namekagon]

I thought a few of questions were a little odd, but then I view Canadians as being a touch
more sophisticated on average so I chalked it off to that.

[Gnu Bee Flyer]

I thought a few of questions were a little odd, but then I view Canadians as being a touch
more sophisticated on average so I chalked it off to that.

There was a section in there where I had no clue what to click , so I didn't. I lived within sight of Carlton for 4 years in the 1960's even delivered food to their cafeteria so I know it exists. As for Canucks being more sophisticated, Your off your nut on that one bud.

[Big Bad Wulff]

Sounds like someone has an agenda................

That seemed like it might have been funded by PETA.
The last page was extremely poorly worded.

[hap]

Fly Tyer
The existence of the University is not in doubt... Where I cannot go is believing there is a connection between the University and the survey. The very reasons you cite, such as peer review and oversight committees make me believe it is impossible. I know I would never accept it as genuine.
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[Fly Tyer]

Hap,

Maybe they were high...????????????????????