{"id":936,"date":"2021-05-13T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T18:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/?p=936"},"modified":"2025-02-26T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T19:05:53","slug":"carleton-researcher-steven-cooke-investigates-recreational-fishing-and-technology-when-is-it-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/2021\/carleton-researcher-steven-cooke-investigates-recreational-fishing-and-technology-when-is-it-too-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Carleton Researcher, Steven Cooke, Investigates Recreational Fishing and Technology \u2013 When is it too Much?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Carleton Researcher, Steven Cooke, Investigates Recreational Fishing and Technology \u2013 When is it too Much?\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/steven-j-cooke\/\">Steven Cooke<\/a>&nbsp;has led a study on the impact of technology that is used by anglers and the recreational fishing industry. This technology has led to rapid and dramatic changes in how recreational anglers interact with fishery resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What was once practiced with bamboo rods and simple braided horsehair lines is now characterized by precision-made reels, ultra-sensitive graphite composite rods, almost invisible fishing line, underwater cameras, state-of-the-art echo sounders and fishing apps that allow anglers to quickly share their experiences and successes with others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom improvements in finding and catching fish, to emulating their natural prey and accessing previously inaccessible waters, to anglers sharing their exploits with others, technology is completely changing all aspects of recreational fishing,\u201c said Cooke, professor of Fish Ecology in Carleton\u2018s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\">Department of Biology<\/a>. \u201cThese innovations may seem positive, though costly, from the perspective of anglers but for fisheries managers and policy makers, it creates challenges as they attempt to keep up with change.\u201c<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/2021\/carleton-researcher-investigates-recreational-fishing-and-technology-when-is-it-too-much\/\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;Steven Cooke&nbsp;has led a study on the impact of technology that is used by anglers and the recreational fishing industry. This technology has led to rapid and dramatic changes in how recreational anglers interact with fishery resources. What was once practiced with bamboo rods and simple braided horsehair lines is now characterized by precision-made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":937,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/936\/revisions\/937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/environmentalscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}