Found this little bit of history on my FB feed:
In the recent past, brazil had no laws that would forbid what you see in this Picture.
After 1990 the catch and release concept arrived here.
Rubens Almeida Prado was the man which began to disclose this concept.
In an article he told that when he began this work, some people called him crazy, some laughed at him an some others even tried to spank him.
This picture was the front page of a magazine that told the history of the famous fisherman here in brazil, called Lester Scalon.
He told in this magazine the motivations that made him turn from a fish killer and depredator to a environmentalist activist.
The good thing was that he was not affraid in showing how the things worked in the past, and that he was part of a society that was really killing the rivers.
With this article, he told everyone the necessity of conserving our country's nature, animals and fishes, and showed that even the worst depredators can become nature defenders.
This magazine and its article is not new, but this Picture is rare and hard to find.
Those red tails was caught at the Araguaia River in the begin of the 80s.
The river is now recovered and we have many fish.
Now, the law forbids to kill any red tail, piraiba(lau lau) or pirarucu(arapaima) in the araguaia river.
hope my foreign friends like this history
best regards
In the recent past, brazil had no laws that would forbid what you see in this Picture.
After 1990 the catch and release concept arrived here.
Rubens Almeida Prado was the man which began to disclose this concept.
In an article he told that when he began this work, some people called him crazy, some laughed at him an some others even tried to spank him.
This picture was the front page of a magazine that told the history of the famous fisherman here in brazil, called Lester Scalon.
He told in this magazine the motivations that made him turn from a fish killer and depredator to a environmentalist activist.
The good thing was that he was not affraid in showing how the things worked in the past, and that he was part of a society that was really killing the rivers.
With this article, he told everyone the necessity of conserving our country's nature, animals and fishes, and showed that even the worst depredators can become nature defenders.
This magazine and its article is not new, but this Picture is rare and hard to find.
Those red tails was caught at the Araguaia River in the begin of the 80s.
The river is now recovered and we have many fish.
Now, the law forbids to kill any red tail, piraiba(lau lau) or pirarucu(arapaima) in the araguaia river.
hope my foreign friends like this history
best regards
