Sustainable management in river Jutai

[hekdiscus]

Below, we started a new project this year based on sustainability and respect for Amazonian peoples

Official permission from the Brazilian government in order to develop this activity and fish




Meeting with a group of fishermen,The training is the basis for the sustainability of the project, respecting the environmental side, social and economic.




The construction of tanks woods, to place and maintain until shipment to my quarantine

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Boat transportation to fish



Piranha Village in jutai river

[hekdiscus]

Soon I'll post more pictures of all fishing step by step

Wait

Hudson

[DiscusBR]

Amazing, Husdson! Congratulations for this wonderful project. Nice to see a sustainable project for wild discus. May be one day I will visit this community Where exactly is it located?

[Elwood]

I don't understand very well portuguese... seems like you can get only 300 discus, right?

[hekdiscus]

Amazing, Husdson! Congratulations for this wonderful project. Nice to see a sustainable project for wild discus. May be one day I will visit this community Where exactly is it located?

Hi Mauro , This project is located in the village of Piranhas, Jutai the river, is 03 days by boat from Manaus

Hudson

[hekdiscus]

I don't understand very well portuguese... seems like you can get only 300 discus, right?

Correct, we can only fish, 300 discus, from this place .

Hudson

[hekdiscus]

going out to fish in the morning



making purse nets in natural attractors





starting the fishing





fish, within the enclosure of the fishing net

[Elwood]

Wow, looks like there's some great discus in that net

[Eddie]

Wow, thats a lot of fish!

[hekdiscus]

[hekdiscus]

Now we have more than 200 green discus in quarantine , Tomorrow we will go to the Upper Rio Negro in another partnership for sustainable fishing, we bring Heckles blue face and solid blue and other varieties They travel with us, researchers at the IMPA and WCS

[Poco]

WOW! That is a lot of fish.

[DonMD]

Hudson, that's outstanding. I hope that the local guys can earn some decent cash while maintaining the sustainable aspect of the enterprise. Good luck, and thank you for posting this!

[DLFL]

This is a great post! Hope to see more as you go along.

Dick