Testing the importance of fish stocking as a determinant of the demand for fishing licenses and fishing effort in Colorado

Human Dimensions of Wildlife

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 46-61

  Loomis, John ^a   Fix, Peter ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Angler hours; Fishing license demand; Regression; Trout stocking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007508408     PISSN: 10871209     EISSN: 1533158X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10871209809359131     Document Type: Article

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