Fish and Fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon : People, Ecology and Conservation in Black and Clear Water Rivers

This book provides comparative data on fish ecology and small-scale fisheries between Tapajos (clear water) and Negro (black water) rivers, in the Brazilian Amazon. These rivers are less studied than white water rivers and few books on Amazon fishes have addressed more than one river basin. These data can serve as a baseline to check future changes or impacts in these rivers, which can be affected by development projects, such as highways, deforestation, mining and dams. Besides information on fish biology, the book also discusses fish uses, fisheries and its importance for riverine people, comparing these data for each fish species between sites located inside and outside conservation units. The book is an outcome of the research project ‘Linking sustainability of small-scale fisheries, fishers’ knowledge, conservation and co-management of biodiversity in large rivers of the Brazilian Amazon’, which was coordinated by the editor of this volume and funded by United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NAS). Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: Fishes of the Brazilian Amazon (Friedrich W. Keppeler, Renato A. M. Silvano)....Pages 1-11 Studied Regions and Methodology (Gustavo Hallwass, Pedro Peixoto Nitschke, Friedrich W. Keppeler)....Pages 13-22 Small-scale Fisheries, Livelihoods, and Food Security of Riverine People (Gustavo Hallwass, Luís Henrique Tomazoni da Silva, Paula Nagl, Mariana Clauzet, Alpina Begossi)....Pages 23-39 Atlas of Fish of Tapajós and Negro Rivers I: Characiformes (Renato A. M. Silvano, Pedro P. Nitschke, Kaluan C. Vieira, Paula Nagl, Astrid T. R. Martínez, Junior A. Chuctaya et al.)....Pages 41-196 Atlas of Fish of Tapajós and Negro Rivers II: Gymnotiformes and Siluriformes (Renato A. M. Silvano, Pedro P. Nitschke, Kaluan C. Vieira, Paula Nagl, Astrid T. R. Martínez, Márcia C. F. Dutra et al.)....Pages 197-320 Atlas of Fish of Tapajós and Negro Rivers III: Perciformes and Other Fish Groups (Renato A. M. Silvano, Pedro P. Nitschke, Kaluan C. Vieira, Paula Nagl, Astrid T. R. Martínez, Márcia C. F. Dutra et al.)....Pages 321-414 Back Matter ....Pages 415-420