Amazon Aquaculture Initiative

From Fish Pond to Dinner Table

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From Fish Pond to Dinner Table

One focus of the initiative has been "grow-out" of cachama (Piaractus brachypomus) fingerlings (baby fish) that the project purchases from a local hatchery.

Secoya fish-farmers received fingerlings and stock them in their ponds:

 

In six months to a year, the fish can be harvested and eaten!

   
 

 
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