The Sport Fish Restoration Program (SFR) has been a stable and highly successful funding program supporting state fisheries research, propagation, and management activities since its inception in 1950. The expanding sport of bowfishing in the past 2 decades, and research over a comparable time period showing very long lifespans of underappreciated native fish species, opens the door to some new ways to classify, manage, and fund monitoring of these natives under the SFR program, while encouraging sport and commercial take of invasives. Evidence from bowfishing and from changes in angling patterns for some nongame species indicates that the time has come to consider reclassifying underappreciated native species into some form of sport status (entirely separate from non-native invasives) and thereby potentially expanding the scope of species projects financed with SFR funds. Reclassification will also function to upgrade the status of underappreciated native species taken within agencies, with bowfishers and anglers, and with the public. It then opens the door to improved, and necessary, monitoring of inland commercial fisheries (often targeting the same species), an activity which has needed improvement and a reliable funding source for decades. We suggest that our approach is a comparatively straightforward one that is scientifically defensible and implementable within the existing state–federal management jurisdictions and institutions.

中文翻译：

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运动鱼类恢复计划作为资金来源来管理和监测弓箭鱼以及监测内陆商业渔业

弓箭钓鱼和某些非游戏物种的垂钓模式变化的证据表明，现在是考虑将未被重视的本地物种重新归类为某种形式的运动状态（完全与非本地入侵物种分开）的时候了，从而有可能扩大资助的物种项目的范围与 SFR 基金。重新分类还将起到提升机构内部、弓钓者和垂钓者以及公众所采取的未被充分重视的本地物种的地位。然后，它为改进和必要的内陆商业渔业（通常针对同一物种）监测打开了大门，几十年来，这项活动需要改进和可靠的资金来源。