Recreational or sport fishing is important for three major reasons:

• economic (it is a multi-billion dollar world industry);
  
• social (it is embedded in the cultures of many nations;
  
• ecological (it affects the environment and food webs in many ways).

Recreational Fisheries covers a range of methods, case studies and perspectives on the multidisciplinary evaluation of the benefits and costs of sports fisheries.

Tony Pitcher and Charles Hollingworth, the editors of this landmark publication, have...