Brazil – Please Crack Down on Illegal Trade of the Pirarucu Fish
- by: Sue Lee
- recipient: Brazil Government, Fish & Wildlife
Please sign and share this petition worldwide in an effort to protect the vital food source in Brazil, known as the pirarucu fish. This “goliath” of the Amazon will become an endangered species if overfishing and habitat degradation by outsiders continues to threaten their existence. We need to encourage Brazil to protect their natural food source of the Amazon rain forest and ban illegal outsiders from catching the pirarucu and overhauling them.
The Amazon rain forest is a resourceful asset for those who reside in and near it in Brazil. A major food source that is in peril is the giant goliath known as the pirarucu. The pirarucu can grow as long as seven feet and weigh more than 400 pounds, placing them in the ranks of freshwater mega fish. Due to overfishing and habitat degradation, this fish is being threatened in different parts of the world; riverbank dwellers and biologists in the Amazon are working together to save the pirarucu by prohibiting outsiders from catching the fish and overhauling their own methods of pursuing it.
There has been a recent fear that the pirarucu could and would disappear from the Amazon rain forest; however those in peril are hoping to preserve this necessary fish, stating that “We figured out that the only way to save the pirarucu was to involve the people living in the forest who depend on the fish for their own survival.”Read the full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/13/world/fishermen-in-brazil-save-a-river-goliath-and-their-livelihoods.html?_r=1
Please help with this issue as we encourage and support Brazil in preserving the life and well-being of the pirarucu as a major food source for themselves and their villagers by signing and sharing this petition on your entire major media sites worldwide.
Brazil Government, Fish & Wildlife – We urge you to take all necessary steps in preserving the pirarucu from endangerment and depletion as a major food source throughout the Amazon rain forest area. Put a ban on any outsiders from fishing within these waters and capturing the fish your people solely rely on for sustenance. In an effort to boost the size of the pirarucu, ensure that no one captures any of these giants when they are too young and small, only 1.5 meters in size and less than 4 ft. 11 inches in length. These fish need to grow and mature, which is usually when they reach 3 to4 years of age. In an effort to save these fish of the Amazon rain forest, it was stated by fishery experts to indulge in saving them by yielding a pioneering conservation success story in the Amazon while offering a strategy for fending off a broader freshwater extinction crisis in preserving fish like the pirarucu. They need to be protected for who and what they are intended. Ban anyone other than those who need these fish for their food source in the area by implementing stricter laws against outsiders; enforce the laws with fines and jail time and ensure the pirarucu is no longer endangered within the waters it thrives in.
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