Amazon Aquaculture Initiative

Local Resources

Project Home
Aquaculture
  Photo Essay
  Exchange Report
  Brochure
  ATF article
Responses to Oil
Enviro Monitoring
Plan Colombia
Indigenous Rights
 
The Secoya People
Project History
How You Can Help
Our Funders

ISIS Publications
Links
Contact us
Search

Projects Overview
  MilWaste Program
  Amazon Project
  Quantum Physics
  Seminars
  Science Dialogue
  Recoding Life
  ISIS Fellows

Local Resources

 

Pond construction is by hand; designs vary depending on the characteristics of a particular site. The majority of families have access to springs or small local streams that they can dam to make a small pond, long and narrow. Some fish farmers choose the greater effort but increased security of digging a pond and filling it by hose from a nearby stream. Either way, purchased materials are minimal: sandbags and PVC pipes to supplement the hand dug earthworks.

 
 

The early period of the initiative was dedicated to developing designs for low cost ponds relatively simple to construct yet able to withstand the heavy rains typical in the Amazon. The goal was to allow farming of fish in semi-natural systems and to provide the opportunity for participants to learn fish management techniques.

 

Fish are fed with a variety of local resources including termites, insect larvae, and kitchen scraps.

 
Essay Intro
Native Species
Local Resources
From Fish Pond to Dinner Table
Fish Farmer Research