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The information below explains your rights as a participant and provides important details about your participation in this survey. Please read the following prior to taking the survey:
IRB Project ID #: UNL-00025713
Participant Study Title: Characteristics of the Nebraska Fishing Guide Industry
The purpose of this research is to gather information on recent guided fishing experiences, personal guiding philosophies, fishing opportunities provided by fishing guides, and how fishing guides influence anglers. If you are a paid fishing guide and are 19 years of age or older, you may participate in this research.
Participation in this study will require approximately 20 minutes. You will be asked to answer multiple-choice and open-ended survey questions regarding the study topics. Participation will take place at any location with internet access.
Society may benefit by better understanding how fishing guides can influence the education, recruitment, retention, and reactivation of anglers.
Reasonable steps will be taken to protect the privacy and the confidentiality of your study data; however, in some circumstances we cannot guarantee absolute privacy and/or confidentiality. Research records will be stored electronically through University approved methods. Records will only be seen by the research team and/or those authorized to view, access, or use the records during the study. After the study is complete, data without identifiable information may be shared for future research.
We will be collecting data from you. We would like to make your data available for other research studies that could be done in the future. That research may be about similar topics, but the topic may also be very different. These studies could be done at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln or at other places, including businesses. Our goal is to make more research possible. We will protect your data as much as we can. We will replace data that can identify you with a code before we share it with other researchers. We will not give them the code.
If you have questions about this project, contact Austin Stafford (Graduate Student, astafford6@nebraska.edu), Dr. Keith Koupal (Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, keith.koupal@nebraska.gov), or Dr. Christopher Chizinski (Principal Investigator, cchizinski2@nebraska.edu).
If you have questions about your rights or complaints about the research, contact the UNL Institutional Review Board (IRB) at (402)472-6965 or irb@unl.edu.
You can decide not to participate in this research, or you can withdraw at any time before, during, or after the research begins for any reason. Deciding not to participate in this research or deciding to withdraw will not affect your relationship with the investigators, the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, or the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. You will not lose any benefits to which you are entitled.
You are voluntarily making a decision whether or not to participate in this research study. By responding to the survey, your consent to participate is implied. You should print or save a copy of this page for your records.