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Determining the effect of environmental accidents on responses to a Gulf of Mexico recreational for‐hire fishing industry survey a
Author(s) -
Savolainen M. A.,
Kazmierczak R. F.,
Caffey R. H.
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/jfb.12143
Subject(s) - fishing , recreation , oil spill , fishery , deepwater horizon , logistic regression , commercial fishing , test (biology) , biology , geography , environmental protection , statistics , ecology , mathematics
A survey designed to collect economic, attitudinal and policy data from the recreational for‐hire ( RFH ) fishing industry in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico was conducted before and during the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history (the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout). Respondents were grouped into two time periods based on when the survey was completed, where the break in groups was determined through the examination of the Pew Research Center's media coverage index and the per cent of fishing area closures due to the oil spill. A logistic regression was used to test variables that might predict the time period of a response. Results indicated that recall bias was not present in the financial variables examined, but that firm operating and demographic characteristics ( i.e . vessel size, annual number of trips, number of vessels operating in the firm, tenure and household income) were significant in explaining the time period in which surveys were completed.