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Recreational fishing constitutes the dominant or sole use of many freshwater fish stocks in the industrial nations, and its importance in coastal areas is growing rapidly. Every tenth EU citizen goes fishing during leisure time. In Germany, anglers take approximately 45.000 tonnes of fish per year from rivers, ponds and lakes – six times more than the commercial inland fisheries. Recreational fishing constitutes an extremely important, yet typically neglected, use of wild fish stocks in most freshwater lakes and rivers in industrialized nations.