Swampland - Fishery

The rivers more piscosos are Paraguay, Miranda, Aquidauana and Taquari. In the rivers Paraguay and Miranda, are possible fisgar the noble types (colored, pacu and gold) .Outras good areas for the amateur fishing is the district of Albuquerque (access for BR-262 o'clock - BAD), I Pass of the Otter (MS-184) and proximities of the farm Rio Negro (access for MS-170 MS-337). A good fishery depends on the knowledge of the place preferred by each species and of the food type preferred by the fish. The table below summarizes the characteristics of the best fish for fishery.

Table of Pisces of Fishery

Vulgar name	Scientific name	Medium measure	Local of Fishing and Characteristics	Baits
Jaú	Pauliceia luetekini	90 cm	spaces of rivers where wells exist with calm and dirty waters	small fish (tuvira, fast and mussum) and minhoca
Colored	Pseudoplastysoma coruscans	80 cm	spaces of rivers where wells exist with calm and dirty waters	small fish (tuvira, fast and mussum) and minhoca
Gilding	Salminus maxillosus	55 cm	he/she swims quickly and when, fisgado for the fishhook, becomes voracious, getting to jump out of the water	tuvira, fast, mussum and minhoca
Pacu	Colossoma mitrei or Piaractus mesopotamicus	40 cm	head and body more grosos; round body; he/she has oval form and it is generally found in spaces of rivers where there is galhadas.	aquatic vegetation, fruits, crabs, tuvira, tucum seeds (Bactris sp. - when the fruit is green and the soft seed) and minhoca
Piauçu	Leporinus spp	38 cm	he/she lives in wells of meek waters	to eat minhoca, cooked corn, heart and crab
Corimbatá or corimba	Prochilodus lineatus	38 cm	he/she lives in spaces of calm waters and swim in cardumes (decrees of fish) .Normalmente, is not noticed when the corimba bit the iesca. That fisgá-lo requests some patience and certain experience.	mass of wheat flour
Other Pisces
Vulgar name	Scientific name	Medium measure	Local of Fishing and Characteristics	Baits
Pacupeva	Mylossoma orbignyanum
Fish-dog	Raphiodon vulpinus
Lambari	Astyanax sp
Saicanga
Piranha	Serrasalmus spp			gafanhoto
Sardine	Triphortheus angulatus
Sauá	Tetragonopterus argentus
Piraputanga	Brycon hilarii		Durante the " Flurry " goes up the river the " stocking-water " (close to its surface).	parada (Pouteria glomerata)
He/she peeped	Leporinus friderici
Ximboré	Schizodon sp
Acari and Rapa-canoe	Loricariidae
Camboatá
Whip
Barky
Bearded				alive baits

Generally, the piloteiros of the fishing areas serves as guides, indicating the good places for the fishing. For a good fishing they are necessary techniques and appropriate instruments.

Instruments of Fishing

Instrument	Description	I use Common
Stick of Fishing	It can be made of bamboo or of synthetic material.	Adapted for fishing of small fish
Synthetic canoe	They are done of synthetic fiber or other resistant material.	They are used mainly not by the professional fishermen traditional.
Canoe of Board	It is usually composed by two boards in the fund, two in the lateral ones and two small in the extremities. The material more common used to build them it is composed by four wood types: ximbuva (Enterolobium contortisiliqum); - it will change it (Vochysia divergens); - the piúva (Tabebuia sp.): and - the cedar (Cedrela sp.). Light and cut oars the hand is used to move them agilmente for the waters of the Swampland. In the most shallow parts a bamboo is used for you push them for the águas.Os empty spaces among the boards they are caulked with it pitches or pitch	Used mainly by the handmade fishermen of the Swampland.
Fisga	É formed by a bamboo stick or wood tends in its extremity a metal point. A predatory instrument is considered and therefore forbidden.	It has been used mainly in the period of the vazante.
Harpoon	It is constituted by a wood stick tends in its extremity a smaller and more fragile stem with an arrow in the extremity. This arrow is linked to the stick by a line of fishing. When the arrow reaches the fish, it is arrested in its body and the most fragile stem is broken. The fisherman then can pull the fish inside of the ship.	Used É when the fish can be located through the vision.
Arch and Arrow	Originated Prática of the old tribes of the area of the Swampland, the arch and arrow is also considered a predatory instrument. The arch is made of flexible wood and for a resistant cord. The arrow is long so that the fish can be recovered easily.	It is used in cardumes and during the vazante and in the areas flooded in the period of the full ones.
Chumbada	Constituído for lead pieces or other material weighed to maintain the line and the bait in the fund of the water. The weight and the form vary in agreement with the fish type, the time and the fishing instrument.	It is used mainly in the fishing with sticks.
Tarrafa	Constituted of a plot of nylon in a conical way, with chumbadas in its base and tied in its top with a cord. When being played for on the waters, its form allows that the same opens up in a circle that is going becoming a cone that gradativamente is going closing trapping the fish in its interior when sinking. The size of the mesh varies according to the size of the fish that one wants to fish. Its use is almost always prohibited by its predatory characteristic once the amount of fish that one fishes is very superior to the allowed. It is used during the vazante and the estiagem, us " baixios"(bancos of sand). It is not used in places of larger depth.	Pode to be used in the bays and in the small rivers of the swampland and preferencialmente to fish small fish. It also depends on the size of the mesh so that it is allowed.
Net	Tem a rectangular format with measures that are going from 8 x 1,5 m to nets that embrace the width of a river. Small buoys are tied in the superior part of the same ones so that the same ones don't sink. They are not allowed by the environmental legislation.	They are very used in the bays for if they fish fish that swim the surface close to.
Hook	É a fishhook type that is tied up to a fishing line with a chumbada weighed in its extremity. It can be in number of terês fishhooks or more. It can hurt the hand of the fisherman and its use is prohibited.	It is used by experienced fishermen and for certain fish types.

Techniques of Fishing

Technique	Descrição	Type of Pisces
Batê		Piraputanga
Branch		Colored-tucuxi, Pintaod-caxara.
Ravine		Pacupeva, Piraputangas, Piaus, Piavuçus and Bagres
Tarrafa
Encounter
Espinhel
Hook		Colored
Facho		Piraputanga, Curimbatá, Piau and Piagussu
Harpoon		Colored
Probe		Colored, Bearded and Jaú
Boinha		Pacu, Colored
Net
He/she fishes Night	In the period of the vazante, in function of the increase of the transparency of the water, it is fished at night, when the fish of larger load approach in search of of the margins arrested smaller. The dark nights and without moonlight they are the favorite ones for the fishermen, because the clear ones and with moonlight, they attract the piranhas presenção that cannot predar the fish fisgados.	Colored-tucuxi, Colored caxara
Lunar cycle	The best lunar phases, are the one of growing room and the one of full.

Obtaining of Baits

Baits	Pisces that you/they prefer these baits	Obtaining
small fish	Pintado-tucuxi, Colored-cachara,	Basicamente three species of fish is used for the fishing of larger fish: - the ximboré; - the saviru; and - saviru-boi.Além of those they can also be used pacupevas, piraputangas, piaus, piavuçus and bagres
tuvira
mussum
minhoca
fast
aquatic vegetation
crabs
fruits
heart
cooked corn
mass of wheat flour
grasshopper
sairú
sardine
ximburé
pinhão
mamona
angu bait		Done of cassava flour, wheat flour, coffee and lukewarm water. Of this mixture they are made small balls, that are placed in the fishhook.

Handlings

Handling
Feed

Conservation of Pisces

Fish	Conservation technique	Approximate duration
pacupeva		3 months
pacu		1 week
colored		1 week
piraputanga		3 days

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