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We can be sure that eel fishing was practised in prehistoric times. Numerous archaeological finds indicate that fishes, including eels, were part of the diet of our ancestors, but unfortunately we have learned little about the methods used to catch the eels or about the numbers caught.
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Tesch, FW., Greenwood, P.H. (1977). Fishing Yields. In: Greenwood, P.H. (eds) The Eel. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5761-9_4
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