Table 1.
Estimates of numbers, participation, expenditure, and activity by marine recreational fishers in Europe (reproduced from Hyder et al. [19]).
Table 2.
The percentage of recreational catch (landings + releases) weight reconstructed for each stock.
NA values indicate there are no data to reconstruct landings.
Table 3.
Recreational release proportions for each stock analysed in this study.
Proportions were calculated by dividing the releases by the catches (landings + releases). Recreational proportions were an average of all studies.
Table 4.
Recreational post-release mortality and commercial discard mortality rates (%) used to estimate the quantity of dead releases/discards.
A precautionary value of 100% was set when no post-release mortality or discard mortality data were available in the literature or the stock assessment for this species for marine environments.
Fig 1.
Total removals (± error bounds) by MRF from each stock.
The total estimated removals (biomass in tonnes or number of individuals landed + post-release mortality) from each stock (± confidence bounds) by MRF. Sal-22-31 removals were presented on a separate scale due to the use of number of individuals removed rather than weight, further, sal-22-31 represents marine catches only. See S8 Table for raw data.
Fig 2.
Contribution to total removals by recreational and commercial fishing.
The percentage contribution to total removals (= landings/ (landed + dead releases or discards)) by recreational and commercial fishing for each stock in which sufficient data existed examined in this study. Salmon removals did not include freshwater recreational fishing data as this study focused on marine recreational fishing.
Fig 3.
Estimated recreational removal bias for each stock.
The estimated bias in the total MRF removals (landings + post-release mortality) for each stock calculated using a weighted study bias. Bias was rated on a seven-point scale ranging between +3 denoting highly overestimated and -3 denoting highly underestimated.