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vest tags similar to those commonly used in terrestrial 
wildlife management. However, recreational fishermen 
may view a rights-based system unfavorably if such 
a system restricted the freedom to fish. In any case, 
managing the recreational reef fish fishery with a fo- 
cus on discard reduction will require changes in fish- 
ermen’s perceptions of the act of fishing as a human 
disturbance (Arlinghaus et al., 2007). However, signifi- 
cant changes in the attitudes of fishermen have been 
successfully implemented in other countries and could 
be adapted to fisheries in the northern GOM fisheries 
as well (Catchpole et al., 2005; Johnston et al., 2007; 
Granek et al., 2008). 
Acknowledgments 
Funding for this work was provided by the National 
Marine Fisheries Service’s Cooperative Research Pro- 
gram (NA09NMF4540137) to W. Patterson. We grate- 
fully acknowledge the charter boat captains and crews 
for their participation and invaluable cooperation 
throughout this study. We also thank J. Tarnecki and 
M. Norberg for their help with sampling. 
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