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Patterns of Commercial Fish Landings in the Loreto Region (Peruvian Amazon) Fish Physiol Biochem DOI 10.1007/s10695-008-9212-7 Patterns of commercial fish landings in the Loreto region (Peruvian Amazon) between 1984 and 2006 Aurea Garcia Æ Salvador Tello Æ Gladis Vargas Æ Fabrice Duponchelle Received: 2 March 2008 / Accepted: 11 March 2008 Ó Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008 Abstract Patterns of commercial fish catches over macropomum and Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii, the period from 1984 to 2006 were studied in the declined significantly and were replaced by smaller, Loreto region and in Iquitos, which is the most short-lived and lower-valued species. Catches of the important town of the region and the principal fish silver Arahuana (Osteoglossum bicirrhosum) also marketplace of the Peruvian Amazon. Despite impor- declined significantly during the studied period, tant inter-annual variations, the overall fish landings strengthening recent warnings about the species’ have significantly increased in the region during this conservation status (Moreau and Coomes, Oryx period. The same three species dominated the catches 40:152–160, 2006). The relative proportions of the during the whole period (Prochilodus nigricans, trophic groups (detritivores, omnivores and pisci- Potamorhina altamazonica and Psectrogaster amazo- vores) remained relatively constant over the study nica), making up about 62% of the catches. However, period, but there were significant changes in the the number of species exploited by commercial relative abundances of the species groups. The fisheries increased considerably during the 22 years proportion of the dominant group, the Characiformes, of this study (from about 21 species in 1984 to over which averaged about 81% of the catches, increased 65 in 2006), although part of the difference may be between 1984 and 2006, whereas the proportion of accounted for by a better identification of individual the Siluriformes and Perciformes remained constant. species nowadays. At the same time, the large high- On the other hand, the proportion of Osteoglossifor- valued species, such as Arapaima gigas, Colossoma mes, represented only by two well known species (Arapaima gigas and Osteoglossum bicirrhosum), declined sharply during the same period. Important differences were observed between the landings of A. Garcia S. Tello G. Vargas Programa deÁ EcosistemasÁ Acua´ticos (PEA), Iquitos and the landing of the whole Loreto region, Instituto de Investigacio´nes de la Amazonı´a Peruana indicating that conclusions drawn from the study of (IIAP), Iquitos, Peru the Iquitos landings cannot be extrapolated to the whole landings of the Loreto region. The most F. Duponchelle (&) Institut de Recherche pour le De´veloppement (IRD), important difference was the decreasing fish landings 350 calle Roma, FOPCA/UNFV, Miraflores, Lima, Peru in Iquitos, whereas the total landings increased in the e-mail: [email protected] Loreto region at the same time. Potential causes of this phenomenon are discussed. Decreasing fish F. Duponchelle IRD-GAMET, UR175—CAVIAR, 34000 Montpellier, abundance around Iquitos (because of a higher fishing France pressure) and a behavioural adaptation of fishermen 123 Fish Physiol Biochem to better law enforcement in Iquitos are likely recent reports of decreasing catches have focussed on explanations to be further investigated. a reduced part of the fisheries only: the fishery fleet of Iquitos (Garcia and Tello 2006). In this study, Keywords Characiformes Fisheries patterns of commercial fish catches were studied in Á Á Iquitos Osteoglossiformes Perciformes the Loreto region over the period from 1984 to 2006. Á Á Á Siluriformes The same analyses were applied to fish landings in Iquitos, which is the most important town of the region and is considered to be the principal fish marketplace and the most important landing port of Introduction the commercial fishery fleet of the Peruvian Amazon (Tello 1998). The objectives were to: (1) analyse the Fishery activities are of primary importance in the long-term trends of fish landings in the region, taking Peruvian Amazon. Fish yields were estimated at into account the different components of this com- 80,000 tonnes year-1 (Bayley et al. 1992) and gen- plex fishery; (2) to analyse the ecological patterns of erate annual incomes of about 80 million USD (Tello fish catches; and (3) to assess whether landings in and Bayley 2001). Fish is also the main source of Iquitos are representative of the general trend in the animal protein in the local population’s diet (Tello Loreto region. 1998; Tello and Bayley 2001). The fishery in the Peruvian Amazon is particularly difficult to manage, owing to its multispecific char- Materials and methods acter, to the scant biological information about most target species and the difficulty in identifying stocks There are no currently available data on fish (Bayley and Petrere 1989; Tello and Bayley 2001). discarding, which is not a common practice in the An added complexity comes from the fishery’s fisheries of the Peruvian Amazon anyway. Therefore, structure itself. There are two types of fishery in the landings and catches will be used as synonyms in the Peruvian Amazon: the subsistence fishery and the text. local market, which comprise about 75% of the total The study area is the Loreto region, located in the landings, and the commercial fishery, which accounts Peruvian Amazon basin (Fig. 1). It includes part of for the remaining 25% (Tello and Bayley 2001). A the Amazon and Ucayali Rivers, which are both further distinction can be made within the commer- considered to be the most important basins in Peru cial fishery: the commercial fishery fleet (‘‘flota (Tello and Bayley 2001). Both rivers are mainly pesquera’’) that lands exclusively fresh fish and the constituted of nutrient-rich white waters originating commercial passenger boats (‘‘carga y pasajeros’’) from the Andes (Hanek 1982). The hydrological that land fresh as well as salted and dried fish. conditions produce flood pulses that inundate large, The catch from the commercial fishery is landed highly productive areas (va´rzea) responsible for the mostly in the Loreto (75%) and the Ucayali (25%) good fisheries production. The most productive regions, both considered as the most notable regions flooded area is located in the Ucayali (Tello and for fishery activities (Tello 1995). This study will Bayley 2001). However, the Loreto region landings focus on the Loreto landings, where more complete also include fishes from the following rivers: Mara- long-term information was available. However, it n˜on, Huallaga, Napo, Tigre, Putumayo, Nanay, must be kept in mind that fish landed in the Loreto are Yavari and Morona. not necessarily caught in rivers of the Loreto region. Statistics of fish landings were provided by Actually, 57% of the fish landed in the Loreto region DIREPRO (Direccio´n Regional de Pesquerı´a de come from the Ucayali River, which belongs, for a Loreto). Reliable data on fishing efforts were avail- large part, to the Ucayali region (Barthem et al. able only for the commercial fishery fleet of Iquitos. 1995). These were collected in the harbour ‘‘Puerto Pesque- No integral study of flota, carga y pasajeros in its ro’’ of Iquitos by the Instituto de Investigacio´nes de la different state of conservation, have been carried out Amazonı´a Peruana (IIAP), via semi-structured inter- in the Loreto region since 1996 (Tello 1998) and views with fishermen. Additionally, interviews with 123 Fish Physiol Biochem Fig. 1 Hydrographic map of the Loreto region (black area) in the Peruvian Amazon (grey and black areas), Peru (white, grey and black areas) public functionaries, fishermen and boat owners of The total landings correspond to all of the fish the commercial fishery fleet and the passenger boats catches, including fresh, salted (converted) and dried were carried out. (converted) fish. The information was divided into two data sets: (1) In multispecies fisheries with as many species as in the total landings in the Loreto region between 1984 the Amazon basin, it is almost impossible to obtain and 2006 and (2) the total landings and the landings reliable information on each species’ biology. It is, of the commercial fishery fleet (exclusively fresh fish) therefore, necessary to group a number of species in Iquitos between 1986 and 2006. according to shared biological parameters and fishery The total landings of the Loreto region take into responses in order to facilitate the analysis and assist account the landings from the following towns: in the prediction of community changes. It has been Iquitos, Yurimaguas, Nauta, San Pablo, Ullpayacu, suggested that trophic groups respond to environ- El Estrecho, Pevas, Mazan, Caballococha, Conta- mental changes, including fishing pressure, in a more mana, Requena, Santa Rosa, San Lorenzo and so on. predictable and robust manner than any individual Fish landings in the Loreto region are divided into species (Austen et al. 1994). The fish species were, three main categories: fresh, salted and dried fish. therefore, grouped into three trophic guilds (Appen- Raw catches of salted and dried fish were converted dix), as described in Bayley (1988), Tello (1998) to fresh fish weight using the conversion factors 1.8 and Tello and Bayley (2001): (1) primary consumers and 2.5, respectively (Hanek 1982; Tello 1998). or detritivores, such as Prochilodus nigricans, 123 Fish Physiol Biochem Potamorhina spp. or Curimata spp.; (2) secondary Fish landings in the Loreto region are divided into consumers or omnivores, such as Colossoma macrop- three main categories: fresh, salted and dried fish. omum, Piaractus brachypomus, Brycon spp., Over the study period, data detailing the type of Mylossoma spp. or Triportheus spp.; and (3) tertiary conservation were available for the last 10 years consumers or piscivores, such as Arapaima gigas, only. During that time, the bulk of the catches was Brachyplatystoma rousseauxii, B. filamentosum, made up of fresh and dried fish, which accounted for, Pseudoplatystoma fasciatum and other large on average, 45% (range 37–57%) and 43% (range catfishes. 29–51%) of the landings, respectively (Fig.
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