Arapaima Gigas

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On one of your earlier posts on this thread you mentioned "wild population (the direction it's heading) ".... do you have any info on this?

I've read that they have breeding farms in the Amazon area for arapaima, but I don't think it was for repopulation of wild stock - just for export.

I've also seen articles that talk about prohibiting the catching (and killing and presumably eating) of smaller pima's, only allowing the catching of ones over a certain size.
 
bmxer4ever;580836; said:
On one of your earlier posts on this thread you mentioned "wild population (the direction it's heading) ".... do you have any info on this?

I've read that they have breeding farms in the Amazon area for arapaima, but I don't think it was for repopulation of wild stock - just for export.

I've also seen articles that talk about prohibiting the catching (and killing and presumably eating) of smaller pima's, only allowing the catching of ones over a certain size.
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my info is all second hand

one i heard that they were being breed in peru and germany
two same source said they (?) were trying to repopulate the amazon

sorry i have no hard copy.......but i will see if i can find anything out........

john
 
This bit of info is the most worrying...

"Population in Iwokrama Forest/ Rupununi Wetlands ecosystem is estimated as less than 850 (December 2001)."

That means that there are probably more Arapaima in captivity in north America than the wild population in this region....and that was 5 years ago! (Sounds similar to statistics I heard about the African big cat populations - more reckoned to be in N.A. private collections than in the wild...).

I wonder if there is any more up to date information on this? IS anyone breeding them for repopulation of WILD stock?
 
bmxer4ever;584984; said:
This bit of info is the most worrying...

"Population in Iwokrama Forest/ Rupununi Wetlands ecosystem is estimated as less than 850 (December 2001)."

That means that there are probably more Arapaima in captivity in north America than the wild population in this region....and that was 5 years ago! (Sounds similar to statistics I heard about the African big cat populations - more reckoned to be in N.A. private collections than in the wild...).

I wonder if there is any more up to date information on this? IS anyone breeding them for repopulation of WILD stock?
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the good news however is that they are being breed in captivity !!!:) :)
 
johnptc;584989; said:
the good news however is that they are being breed in captivity !!!:) :)
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Really? Who's doing that? Got a website address for it? Would love to see this....
 
bmxer4ever;585090; said:
Really? Who's doing that? Got a website address for it? Would love to see this....
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i would two........however the fish for sale in the usa are captive bred either in south america or ( germany ??)

i dont have any web info john:confused: :confused:
 
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