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LSU: New Research Shows Pandemic Good for Recreational Fishing Due to 'Social Fishtancing'
August 19, 2021
BATON ROUGE, Louisiana, Aug. 19 (TNSJou) -- Louisiana State University issued the following news release:

Recreational fishing in the U.S. is largely a personal hobby that scales up to a multibillion-dollar economic activity. More than 44 million people in the U.S. identify as recreational anglers making this hobby second only to jogging in terms of popular outdoor activities.

At the beginning of the pandemic last spring as things were shutting down, fisheries science r . . .

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