Goulding lived in Brazil for quite a few years and studied the fishery
on one large tributary river extensively.
I watched locals fish for tambiqui, but never did it myself. they
thought the idea of fishing for one with a hook and line was
ludricous. They set up in a boat near a tree where fruits or monkey
droppings would plop into the water, and waited for a fish to show up
so they could spear it. I did not know of them fishing on purpose for
piripatinga, but the fish is definitely included in the fish marketed.
I also saw gill netting, where the main catch was "pacu," mostly of
the genus Myleus.
I did fish with hook and line. The only fish I caught were small
pimilodids and red piranha. This was on Rio Negro-in-high water.
David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
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----- Original Message -----
From: anutej-in-loxinfo.co.th
Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006 1:14 pm
Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Texas Man Catches Fish With Human-Like Teeth
> The red pacu [same genus as the black pacu {tambiqui} and grows
> huge]raised in Southeast Asia [official alien......] eats
> everything.
> In the river it will take meaty and live fish bait too. Here in
muddy
> river and aquaculture ponds these aliens seem not to be very tasty
> compared to lots of other freshwater native species avaliable here in
> Southeast Asia.
>
> Tony
>
>
> dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu wrote:
> >
> > Michael, just want to make sure about the fish you kept, since the
> > common name pacu is confusing in this country (and in Brazil,
> too, but
> > more narrowly so). What genus were your fish? I remembered
> > incorrectly, btw. I looked up the food habits reports in
Goulding's
> > book, and he says around 2% arthropods for the various pacus
> ("silver> dollars") not including tambiqui when they are in
> isolated flood plain
> > lakes. For tambiqui, he found fish and arthropods in 2 out of 127
> > specimens. He did not examine any juvenile fish, however, and
maybe
> > they eat more animal material. If your fish were tambiqui, I'd say
> > they were almost certainly juvenile fish, unless you have really
big
> > tanks!
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > David L. McNeely, Ph.D., Professor of Biology
> > Langston University; P.O. Box 1500
> > Langston, OK 73050; email: dlmcneely-in-lunet.edu
> > telephone: (405) 466-6025; fax: 405) 466-3307
> > home page http://www.lunet.edu/mcneely/index.htm
> >
> > "Where are we going?" "I don't know, are we there yet?"
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Moontanman-in-aol.com
> > Date: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:50 am
> > Subject: Re: NANFA-L-- Texas Man Catches Fish With Human-Like Teeth
> > > I've kept pacu in a pond in my greenhouse and they ate meat. They
> > > ate baby
> > > turtles like they were going out of style. They would also eat
> > > fresh shrimp,
> > > they might prefer plants but mine ate what ever I fed them. The
> > > baby turtles
> > > were from a nest a turtle laid in my greenhouse. When they
hatched
> > > I took the
> > > babies to the pond and almost lost them all to the pacu. It could
> > > be they were
> > > just hungry due to lack of sufficient plant food to satisfy them.
> > > In the
> > > wild they might be a lot more picky.
> > >
> > > Michael
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