Goals are important for the effective execution of public trust responsibilities by state inland fisheries bureaus, but formulating meaningful goals is not simple. Often bureaus look to their past and to their sister bureaus in neighboring states when crafting goals for their own freshwater resources. Herein, we review the goal themes of fisheries bureaus using publicly available documents and guided by previous literature. We test whether goals exhibit geographic patterns, presuming that differences and similarities in climate, natural resources, and people determine, to various degrees, the goal themes across the United States. We identified nine distinct goal themes, but found that they do not form clear geographic patterns, which contrasts with a similar analysis conducted in the 1970s. Since the 1970s, fisheries bureau goals have expanded and regionalism in goals has vanished. We suggest that changes in perspectives and communication technology, as well as provisions within nationwide funding mechanisms, have led to goals becoming more homogenous across the USA and more diverse within each bureau.

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当代内陆渔业目标的主题

目标对于国家内陆渔业局有效履行公共信任责任很重要，但是制定有意义的目标并不简单。在为自己的淡水资源制定目标时，各局通常会回想过去以及邻国的姐妹局。在此，我们使用公开可用的文件并以先前的文献为指导，回顾渔业局的目标主题。我们假设目标在气候，自然资源和人类方面的差异和相似之处在不同程度上决定了美国的目标主题，因此我们测试目标是否表现出地理格局。我们确定了9个不同的目标主题，但发现它们没有形成明确的地理模式，这与1970年代进行的类似分析形成了鲜明的对比。自1970年代以来，渔业局的目标已经扩大，目标的区域主义消失了。我们建议，观点和通信技术的变化以及全国性资助机制中的规定已导致目标在美国变得越来越同质，在每个局中也变得更加多样化。