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Published online 20 November 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021118-5
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Fishy tales hide facts
Anglers' exaggeration scuppers fish conservation.
Fishermen's boasts are making conservationists complacent, warns a Canadian ecologist1.
The worse catch an angler has, the more he exaggerates his success.
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