About Our Unit

The national Cooperative Research Units Program is a unique collaborative relationship between the Federal government, universities, states, and a non-profit organization.

The first Cooperative Research Unit was established in 1935 and located in Ames Iowa at Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). With the addition of the Nebraska Unit in 2004, the CRU program is now comprised of 40 units.

The mission of the Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit Program is to

1. Train graduate students for professional careers in natural resource research and management,
    
2. Conduct research that will create new information useful for management of natural resources; and,
    
3. Provide technical assistance to cooperators.

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Angler Creel Surveys

In spring 2009, the Nebraska Coop Unit, in partnership with the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, will begin conducting state-wide surveys of angler catches.

Motives for participation in angling activities are poorly understood. Even less is known about how management actions influence the participation patterns of anglers. Yet angler activities impact the environment andmanagement of water-bodies, and the economics of nearby communities.

This five-year project will provide baseline information of angler-participation patterns on different scales, and assess changes in angler participation in response to changes in management actions. The project will also document how the harvest of sexually dimorphic fishes varies with different regulations (i.e., length limits) in order to better understand how harvest regulations affect sportfish populations.

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