Human Disturbances to Waterfowl

Annotated Bibliography

104. Johnson, R. E. 1964. Fish and fowl. pages 453-458 in J. P. Linduska, ed. Waterfowl tomorrow. U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, D.C.

It was recognized that if waterfowl use heavily fished waters for breeding, resting, or feeding, they will be disturbed often by anglers who use boats or fish from the banks. It was suggested that this conflict can be resolved by zoning certain water areas for use by waterfowl or by anglers or by restricting fishing during the season when waterfowl are nesting and rearing their broods.

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