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Global economic value for the Anguillidae family of fish - European eel species

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🐟🐟 Who here likes to fish!? 🐟🐟  
Did you know the total economic value of inland fishing as food is over 10 billion dollars!?  

European eel species in the Anguillidae family has a 170-million-dollar total economic impact. It is fished for in 9 countries, including Germany (200 million dollars), Poland (9 million dollars), and Austria (5 million dollars). 

We teamed up with the USGS Midwest Climate Adaptation Science Center to create this data visualization.  
 

Data from https://doi.org/10.5066/P9904C3R and https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01604-y   

Relationships - Clusters #30DayChartChallenge

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