I usually come across demagogic comments . Comments from people without knowledge about the Amazon and the export business of Ornamental Fish. The collection of Wild Discus is made several years and in the last 8 years has undergone important new regulations.
Today, for example, Santarem Discus has an annual collection quota of 4000 fish. Many are concerned about the sustainability of the Wild Discus in the Amazon. But their knowledge is limited, because they did not come to the Amazon, because they did not make more than 500 expeditions like us , where we observed places that until now have not been retired Wild Discus. Nobody out side Brazil knows the Government rules .
There are hundreds of places where there are Wild Discus still to be taken out of their environment and that every day are eaten by predators , as it is part of the ecosystem itself
Regardless of whether they are Discus, Corydoras, Tetras, etc , etc the collection can not be more than 4000 fish per year. A platform on line of the Ministry of the Environment , regulates the entrance of animals in the company accompanied by invoice of the fisherman who collected, being this enabled by the Ministry of Fisheries to issue it as well as by the Federal Revenue Service. In addition to this document the animal transport guide must always accompany the cargo, called GTA. These documents must appear on the entry of live animals into the company, as well as on their exit when they are sold. Also important is the mortality to be slaughtered in stock.
Ministry of the Environment platform on line
We can be proud to have 0.1% Wild Discus mortalities in stock at the Santarem Discus Company , during this Season 2018/2019 , due to the good conditions we maintain. Good filtration, water quality, medicines and food. Even the lack of constant energy in this Amazon region is not a factor in losing animals, because a generator is activated when the same electric energy is missing.
In this way, as I have here, control over ornamental fish is extremely controlled by Brazilian laws. At least this model is being well achieved in the State of Pará where it started. Several surveys are done per year, as well as the count of fish in stock to control incoming and outgoing, as well as mortalities. The fines are heavy for those who fail. But more important than all this is consciousness and common sense. This control of collection is important for us.
We know year after year in the communities we habitually visit the amount of wild discus that are removed. We try to maintain control of each community, with exclusive contracts for the Wild Discus collection. In this way we have the notion of how many fish are removed per year. When I've been more than one company removing Wild Discus from this community it's impossible to determine how Wild Discus leaves. There are cases of communities that even being warned that a lot of Wild Discus are leaving and may run the risk of ending there, not listening and not wanting to know. We have that common sense, often fishermen not because it is a major money in their annual income.
This online control system that started in the state of Pára in the middle of Amazonia has everything to give right and control the Ornamental Fish that are collected. Now such common sense is also part of those who work honestly in this sector of activity. We know that many work with illegal fish, others have more than 30% mortality that are not declared in this online Control Platform on line . For these, there must be more fiscals for the surveys to be constant .
There is a lot of demagoguery and a lot of lack of knowledge when they worry about the sustainability of the ornamental fish in general and in particular of the Wild Discus, when the fish that serves to eat begins to disappear. Like the Arapaimas and other amazon fish to eat of an excessive collection among other Amazonian fish that are edible.
Maybe one day the Wild Discus will be threatened , when someone starts collecting them to eat ....
Vitor Hugo Quaresma
Today, for example, Santarem Discus has an annual collection quota of 4000 fish. Many are concerned about the sustainability of the Wild Discus in the Amazon. But their knowledge is limited, because they did not come to the Amazon, because they did not make more than 500 expeditions like us , where we observed places that until now have not been retired Wild Discus. Nobody out side Brazil knows the Government rules .
There are hundreds of places where there are Wild Discus still to be taken out of their environment and that every day are eaten by predators , as it is part of the ecosystem itself
Regardless of whether they are Discus, Corydoras, Tetras, etc , etc the collection can not be more than 4000 fish per year. A platform on line of the Ministry of the Environment , regulates the entrance of animals in the company accompanied by invoice of the fisherman who collected, being this enabled by the Ministry of Fisheries to issue it as well as by the Federal Revenue Service. In addition to this document the animal transport guide must always accompany the cargo, called GTA. These documents must appear on the entry of live animals into the company, as well as on their exit when they are sold. Also important is the mortality to be slaughtered in stock.
We can be proud to have 0.1% Wild Discus mortalities in stock at the Santarem Discus Company , during this Season 2018/2019 , due to the good conditions we maintain. Good filtration, water quality, medicines and food. Even the lack of constant energy in this Amazon region is not a factor in losing animals, because a generator is activated when the same electric energy is missing.
In this way, as I have here, control over ornamental fish is extremely controlled by Brazilian laws. At least this model is being well achieved in the State of Pará where it started. Several surveys are done per year, as well as the count of fish in stock to control incoming and outgoing, as well as mortalities. The fines are heavy for those who fail. But more important than all this is consciousness and common sense. This control of collection is important for us.
We know year after year in the communities we habitually visit the amount of wild discus that are removed. We try to maintain control of each community, with exclusive contracts for the Wild Discus collection. In this way we have the notion of how many fish are removed per year. When I've been more than one company removing Wild Discus from this community it's impossible to determine how Wild Discus leaves. There are cases of communities that even being warned that a lot of Wild Discus are leaving and may run the risk of ending there, not listening and not wanting to know. We have that common sense, often fishermen not because it is a major money in their annual income.
This online control system that started in the state of Pára in the middle of Amazonia has everything to give right and control the Ornamental Fish that are collected. Now such common sense is also part of those who work honestly in this sector of activity. We know that many work with illegal fish, others have more than 30% mortality that are not declared in this online Control Platform on line . For these, there must be more fiscals for the surveys to be constant .
There is a lot of demagoguery and a lot of lack of knowledge when they worry about the sustainability of the ornamental fish in general and in particular of the Wild Discus, when the fish that serves to eat begins to disappear. Like the Arapaimas and other amazon fish to eat of an excessive collection among other Amazonian fish that are edible.
Maybe one day the Wild Discus will be threatened , when someone starts collecting them to eat ....
Vitor Hugo Quaresma
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