JOIN ME IN THE AMAZON RAINFOREST!! Project Piaba Trip - September 24-October 8, 2022
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- Project Piaba
For 25 years, Project Piaba has been at the forefront of research into the Rio Negro fishery and its impacts. They are a registered non-profit with decades of experience taking groups to this region of Brazil.
The trip includes:
- 2 weeks on a well-appointed live-aboard boat. Participants will share a room with one other person. - Rooms are air-conditioned and include comfortable bunks beds, linens, private in-room bathrooms with toilet and shower, electric outlets.
- Visits to biological hotspots in small boats; opportunities to view fish in their wild habitat when you snorkel.
- Visits and opportunities to meet with aquarium fishing communities.
- Participate in best handing practices training with fishing communities to better the health of exported fish.
- Collect, photograph and release newly legalized species for aquarium export.
- Participate in developing traceability techniques for individual fish through the supply chain.
- Visits to home aquarium fish export facilities.
- Delicious meals prepared by experienced cooks; mineral water, juices, and coffee/tea.
- All possible Covid-19 safety protocols will be adhered to, we are requiring trip participants to be vaccinated and tested prior to departure.
TO SIGN UP:
Reach out to Scott Dowd or Jackie Anderson for more information and to reserve your spot
Scott: SDowd@Projectpiaba.org OR Jackie: janderson@projectpiaba.org
Check out the details and sign up here: projectpiaba.org/what-we-do/expeditions/
Exciting!! Keep killing it alex!
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It's an opportunity of a lifetime! I wish I could tag along! Very cool of you to open this up to people, Alex!
I clicked on the link and it looks like the fall trip has been postponed to January 2023 - which would actually work out better for us - seriously thinking about it!
Hi Alex, it's so quiet here. Could you please give an update? What happened meanwhile? Cheers, Bernd
Ugh, overlaps with the last Catfish Convention. (Maybe you could do a remote presentation?)
This is one of the best Projects going !!! Thank You Alex!! 👏🏻👏🏻 😎
is there a vacation along these lines that is not a research trip? A freshwater fish scuba trip?
this would be an awesome opportunity, but I'm having to do at-home dialysis. I could bring my supplies, but I doubt it would be sanitary enough. 😆
Be back just in time for aquashella chicago ;)
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Hey, this conservation strategy sounds like an awesome concept, but with one potential snag. How do you motivate the local fisherman - many of whom I would assume live in abject poverty - to fish more sustainably? Doesn't sustainable harvesting almost always mean harvesting less fish in the short term, which would negatively affect these local fisherman's income, at least in the short term?
I'm so glad you asked him this, this is something that is very important to think about in conservation strategies and something that makes a lot of people lean towards captive raised fish. The thing is, this fishery has existed in a sustainable fashion since the 1950's with no changes to the number of fish being harvested due to changing fish population numbers. Export numbers of fish have changed dramatically due to market demand leaning towards the same species of fish produced on fish farms in other parts of the world because they are cheaper to produce and people THINK they are better for the environment. However the fact is that the fishermen target species that are short lived, quick reproducing, and who have boom and bust population cycles related to seasonal water level changes in the habitat. The fish that are trapped in the flooded forest as the flood waters recede generally do not survive to the next season anyway, and this is where the fishing activity is happening. The fish populations year to year are dependent on the health of the ecosystem and cannot thrive alongside environmentally destructive industries. Thus having the fishery provide a predictable yearly income to rural families prevents the incursion of destructive industries that threaten the fishery. People protect the habitat that sustains their source of livelihood, and the habitat renews itself with an incredible 10 meter seasonal water level change that leaves these fish high and dry for the fishermen to pick up.
I wish, but I can't wait to see the records in the aftermath!
Love this exciting opportunity you are opening up for people. ❤ Also will be eagerly awaiting this film.
Whoop Whoop! I was wondering what had happened to this project, very excited that it is back on. Shame I can't make the expedition, but good luck with it all. Look forward to the final film!
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I have no interest in being anywhere near tropical mosquitoes but I'll enjoy living vicariously through you.
Hi! This may be a dumb question, but are there scholarships available to fund going specifically for the research aspect? Coming from a bio student, I don't have a lot of research opportunities in fisheries and marine biology at my school, but I'd love to be able to do work with a project like this. I could care less about the luxuries- I just want to do the science!
How amazing! I’d love to go on expedition to the Amazon, if only I was not old & in a wheelchair😞. But I look forward to seeing the videos!❤️🇦🇺
I am sure this will be another great experience Alex ... it will be interesting to get your impressions in comparison to January 2020.
This looks to be an amazing trip. With my job I’d need more notice. I would love to go but maybe if there’s an opportunity in the future and I know earlier.
I'll add my "wish I could go" to the list. Amazing work! Can't wait to see the film. ❤️
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Looking forward to the film Alex! Really wish I could go on the trip - sounds incredible!!! ☹
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