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Global economic value of recreationally fished inland 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!?  

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

Global economic value of recreationally fished inland species. Nested bubble chart shows global economic value in U.S. dollars and the relationship between fish families, individual species, and the countries where those species are fished. Cyprinidae family has the biggest economic impact at 3 billion dollars globally. 

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