Book review: Jon A. Lucy and Anne L. Studholme (Eds.): catch and release in marine recreational fisheries

As a fish conservation measure, common angling practice and recreational fisheries management tool, catch and release fishing (C&R) has a long history in freshwater fisheries. However, its importance is increasing in recent times. This reflects the need to reconcile limited fisheries resources and potentially unlimited angling mortality without constraining total angling effort. However, most research on and application of C&R angling has been limited to freshwater, whereas the marine environment has received less attention, and the human dimensions (HD) of C&R are just beginning to be investigated. The present book Catch and Release in Marine Recreational Fisheries is directed towards C&R in saltwater, and because of this merits particular attention. The intend of the book is to document both the rapidly expanding fisheries biological and HD research on C&R, and the editors managed to reach this aim, at least for the fisheries biological part.