If you want to catch this size of 'tetrapturus belone' (Mediterranean spearfish - shortbill) in Mediterranean, you can catch it ONLY in vicinity of Dubrovnik !!!

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• Recreational fishing in Europe is responsible for 2,900 companies, 60,000 jobs and turnaround of 5 billion Euros annually.

• Europe has 25 million recreational anglers that spend an estimated 25 billion Euros each year.

• New Zealand anglers spend an average of $900 per year.

• Australian anglers spend an average of $100 per year.

• Nearly 40 million Americans fish. That's more than the number of people that play golf or tennis combined.

• Recreational fishing in the US supports more than one million jobs.

• Recreational fishing in the US supports more than $45 billion in annual retail sales.

• The total economic output of recreational fishing in the US is over $125 billion annually.

• US anglers and boaters spend over $600 million annually on excise taxes that go towards fisheries conservation and enhancement.

• US anglers directly invest $1.2 billion annually to preserve, protect and enhance the sport of recreational fishing.

• There are over 31,000 species of fish.

• There are less than 6,000 species of mammals.

• The world’s biggest fish is the whale shark (Rhincodon typicus) which can grow to over 20 meters in length, weigh over 34,000 kilograms and live as old as 70 years.

• Paedocypris progenetica is the world’s smallest fish and only grows to roughly 8 millimetres in length.

• Bigger specimens of a given species have a smaller gill area to body weight than smaller specimens.  This means that big fish will tend to run out of oxygen faster than smaller fish of a given species.