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Computer Use in Freshwater Fisheries Management
Author(s) -
Clark Richard D.,
Garling Donald L.,
Lackey Robert T.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1977)002<0021:cuiffm>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - fishery , fisheries management , business , geography , environmental resource management , environmental science , fishing , biology
A brief questionnaire was sent to chiefs of the 50 freshwater fisheries management agencies in the United States to determine how they currently use computers and how they plan to use or perceive the need to use computers in the near future. Currently, the leading use of computers is in automated mail or creel surveys, followed by biostatistical calculations and data storage and retrieval. Eight fisheries agencies reported using computerized resource allocation or ecosystem models, while three agencies reported not using computers for any reason. Two agencies predicted their computer needs over the next 5 years would remain about the same as the present, 40 agencies predicted their needs would probably increase, and five states planned great expansions of their use of computers.