Study of loricariids in the ornamental fish trade in Santarem

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Study of loricariids in the ornamental fish trade in Santarem

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de Sousa, A. L. P., Maciel, L. A. M., & Rodrigues, L. R. R. (2018). Study of the Loricariidae family (Siluriformes) ornamental fish business at Santarém/PA. PUBVET, 12(9), 1-7.
DOI: 10.31533/pubvet.v12n9a176.1-7

https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abs ... 0183309910

PDF: http://pubvet.com.br/uploads/a43c6f2959 ... 9a06ba.pdf
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In Brazil, the trade of ornamental fish from freshwater environments still relies on the essentially extractive activity, largely in the Amazon region. The Pará State is one of the major Loricariidae ornamental fish supplier, especially with the Xingu and Tapajós river basins. In the present study, we analyzed the Loricariidae ornamental fish trade from the Tapajós River, marketed by companies operating at Santarém city. The raw data were compiled from the official documents: Animal Transport Guides (GTA) and Fish Transit Guides for Ornamental and Aquarium Fisheries (GTPON), covering a period from January/2013 to December/2016. Were sold 136.705 fish units, which yielded the gross income of R$ 365.013,80. The species sp. (), sp. (), sp. () and (L134) were the most productive and economically profitable, accounting for 59.6% of the gross income in the period from January/2013 to December/2016. The ornamental fish production of Santarém/PA resulted from the extractive artisanal fishing and was almost fully sold into the Brazilian market. Since there is still scarce literature about the ornamental fishery in the Tapajós basin, these results are important for the understanding of the local productive chain.
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An interesting observation about the above, I found what is almost a "Freudian slip."

The paper clearly must be discussing the legal side of the ornamental trade. But we all know there has also been a flourishing trade involving species illegal to remove from the rivers and export via snuggling. perhaps the best known of all these species might be H. zebra. When I hover over the word Hypancistrus above, the picture that pops up is of a zebra even though the Hypan. in question is L260. Hovering over that show that pleco, which was legal to export.

That made me wonder how many zebras worth how much money have been removed from Brazil compared to the numbers for and money for 260s etc? I wonder how much of the ornamental fish export "economy" involves fish that don't get counted because they are not legal to export?
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TwoTankAmin wrote: 02 Nov 2018, 14:21 An interesting observation about the above, I found what is almost a "Freudian slip."

When I hover over the word Hypancistrus above, the picture that pops up is of a zebra even though the Hypan. in question is L260. Hovering over that show that pleco, which was legal to export.
Hi TTA,

I take your point, but the text here is coincidental. I put the CLOG tags around Hypancistrus, and it's PCF that chooses the image.

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A few of those images in Figure 1 look very familiar indeed ...
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racoll wrote: 02 Nov 2018, 17:51 A few of those images in Figure 1 look very familiar indeed ...
Hehe. Yes, I spotted that too.

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@beekateen

Eric- I know is was coincidental. I was just observing how that coincidence also made a point, even if unintentionally.
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