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Sustainable, community-based Aquarium Fish business, Iwokrama Forest – Guyana

Sustainable, community-based Aquarium Fish business, Iwokrama Forest – Guyana. Objectives and Goals. Develop a sustainable aquarium fish business in the North Rupununi as a NTFP and an alternative to tropical deforestation

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Sustainable, community-based Aquarium Fish business, Iwokrama Forest – Guyana

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  1. Sustainable, community-based Aquarium Fish business, Iwokrama Forest – Guyana

  2. Objectives and Goals • Develop a sustainable aquarium fish business in the North Rupununi as a NTFP and an alternative to tropical deforestation • Develop a multi-stakeholder management plan and work toward developing regulatory structures that ensure the ecological, social, and cultural sustainability of the aquarium fish trade • Build stakeholder capacity and awareness of the potential for the trade to contribute to development and conservation in the North Rupununi

  3. Experience Gained: Ecological Sustainability • Catch Per Unit Effort • Holding and Health Protocols for selective key aquarium fish species • Habitat and distribution and abundance of key aquarium species • Migration and breeding behavior of key aquarium fish species

  4. Experience Gained:Cultural Sustainability • Custom and belief • Local community involvement • Decision Making Process • Trust • Partnership

  5. Experience Gained:Socio-Economic Sustainability • Alternative source of income • Harvesters expectations • Cultural Shock • Business Management • $$$ Matters

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