Urban and Community Fisheries Programs: Development, Management, and Evaluation

Preface

doi: https://doi.org/10.47886/9781934874042.fmatter

Fisheries professionals gathered in Grand Rapids, Michigan in October 1983 for the first urban fishing symposium. Urban fishing programs had developed in the late 1960s and many of the early lessons learned were presented. Most importantly, those lessons were published in the 1984 foundational work Urban Fishing Symposium Proceedings. This work is out of press and very hard to find, much work has been done since its time, and many other states have recently developed programs, necessitating a new urban fishing symposium.