A week of celebrations to mark the 25th anniversary of the handling of arapaima in the Amazon river
Schedule it came to pass in the month of June in the city of Manaus (AM), and included meetings, board meetings, and other tributes
From the 8th to the 14th of June, in Manaus, the city hosted a busy week of events that have marked the 25th anniversary of the establishment of a system of sustainable management of arapaima in the Amazon river. The program included the participation of the representatives of the 50 organizations, associations, community organisations, non-governmental organizations and agencies of the government of the state and federal governments to celebrate the more than two decades of achievements and discuss the challenges of the future.
Organized by the Collective of the Pirarucu, the Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos recursos naturais Renováveis (Ibama) and the Instituto Mamirauá, and with the support of the us Forest Service (USFS), the U.s. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Instituto Chico Mendes de Conservação da Biodiversidade (ICMBio), the event counted with the participation of more than 130 people, related to the activity of the management of the pirarucu fish from different areas of the state.
“The term ‘management’ was a reference to the fish. But it soon became apparent that you have far more to do with the people, their skills, their ancestry, and their relationship with the place,” said Ana Claudia Torres, coordinator of the Program for the Management of the Fisheries of the Instituto Mamirauá.
A meeting of the Women’s Manejadoras
take place on the 8th and 9th of June, The first Meeting of the Women’s Manejadoras de Pirarucu: Strengthening Identities and Networks, has opened up a week’s worth of activities, and met the women manejadoras of the nine areas of the state, to discuss issues of gender are linked to the supply chain of the pirarucu.
“I’m pretty sure that the women manejadoras have a group that you can look out for and help in the empowerment, if you want to create a future that will be able to bring appreciation for the work of all of us, women and young people,” said Vania da Silva, de Souza, in the Community of the Japurá, the region of the Middle Purus river, who took part in the meeting.
The 11th Meeting of the group of the Pirarucu
a regular basis, and the representatives of the various organizations that make up the Collective of the Pirarucu fish come together to discuss issues that are pertinent to the activity of management, such as marketing, logistics, and public policy, among other topics. In the first meeting this year was held from the 10th to the 12th of June, with double the number of participants compared to the previous meeting, which took place in December of 2023.
“In 2023, the group gains a lot of different levels of the federal government, as a result of the schedule of the incidence of Brasilia. This approach has been consolidated in this meeting, and it must be translated into concrete benefits for both the manager and the entire value chain of the arapaima as a whole,” says Leonardo, Kurihara, the indigenous people of the operação Amazônia Nativa (OPAN).
The program of the meeting and addressed the reports in the areas of management, and the results of the arrangement of business Like Amazon, talk about a Payment for Environmental Services (PES) schemes, in addition to Political Support, the Marketing, and the government’s Guarantee of a Minimum Price for the socio-biodiversity Products (PGPMBio).
The seminary Community Surveillance and Enforcement
For the protection of the territory and of the lakes of the management, it is considered to be one of the biggest challenges of the activity and, as most of the communities in manejadoras deal on a daily basis with the pressure of invasions and illegal activities in the surrounding area. In the year 2022, the group drew up a note group complaints made by managers in different regions of the Amazon, while also addressing the practice of criminal diverse and are associated with the illegal fishing, and the worse the situation is unsafe.
Due to the importance of the subject, and the urgency of the effective action for the Collective of the Pirarucu fish arranged in a specific schedule in order to discuss and to plan for actions at all levels of government. In the Workshop of Community Surveillance and Enforcement in the Areas of Management of Arapaima in the Amazon river , took place between the 10th and the 11th of June, including the programming of the 11th Meeting of the Group.
In addition to the debates, and panels, the participants were divided into three Working Groups (Wgs) for in-depth discussion and the development of the proposed actions. The working Groups of the The community surveillance, Monitoring and Security , counted with the participation of representatives of federal agencies such as Ibama, ICMBio and the National Foundation for Indigenous Peoples (Funai) and the organs of the state, such as the Command, enforcement, and Environmental aspects of the Military Police of Amazonas, brazil.
“The workshop has achieved a result far greater than we had expected. The hope was to understand the context and the start of reflections, but you’ve already come out with great directions. It’s a sensitive topic, difficult, and it hurt deeply over the life of the people,” he said, Fernanda Alvarenga, a consultant that is part of the team, and he has served as a mediator for the event.
The 25-year Stewardship of Arapaima in the Amazon river
On the of June 2, 1999, he signed the first authorization for the implementation of sustainable management of arapaima in the Amazon river after years of outright ban on fishing is due to the risk of extinction of the species. The Instituto Mamirauá has proposed a model, which has been approved by Ibama), which is implemented with success in the Mamirauá Sustainable Development Reserve, and later expanded to other parts of the state.
To mark the date, and the end of the week of programming is dedicated to a theme, the agency developed, in the 13th and 14th of June, a chance meeting with the managers of the different areas of the state. Workshops in technical discussions about marketing and a successful experience, in addition to the session in question, and the guidance provided by the staff of the Ibama/AM.
At the end of the event, the agency and the Instituto Mamirauá, received a tribute in recognition of the significant contribution of the two institutions, one that is intrinsically linked to the history of the management of the pirarucu. At the invitation of the OPAN, an organization that is part of the team, and promoted the honour of the artist in the amazon Livia, Rock, and produced two pieces unique to give as a gift to the institutions, based on photographs taken by photographer Adriano Gambarini in the activities of the management of the pirarucu.
“Now, 25 years later, we are celebrating not only the success of the ecological, but also to strengthen the communities, and the enhancement of the knowledge of the old and of the union for collective development of a present and a future that is sustainable. The two companies, Ibama) and the Instituto Mamirauá, is inextricably linked to the history of the management of the pirarucu. The Mamirauá, with your hard work, and cutting-edge research, and the formulation of the proposal. The agency, with the mission of the institution, the sensitivity and the power to turn an idea into public policy,’ says the passage of the note at him.