researchers China, Paraguay and Colombia they put the magnifying glass bocachicoColombia’s flagship fish.
They analyzed their species for four years. genetic code in order to preserve it, not to become extinct and reproduce it in a higher quality.
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this kind of colombian and also called Prochilodus magdalenae, mainly live Magdalena river, but also in rivers Cauca, Sinú and Atrato.
During this time, experts devoted themselves to researching this topic. native species, These banks are of great nutritional importance for residents. According to Isagén researchers, there is at least one ingredient in the Colombian diet. one million five hundred thousand people consume and they protect it from selling 150,000 fishermen across the region.
Jonny Yepes, research coordinator, director of the native fish group, and author and researcher of the interdisciplinary team that developed the project, since 2012 This species is listed as sensitive and so they wanted to extract a genome to analyze their conservation methods.
For researchers, the genome will make it possible to determine how. it feeds better, how it reproduces better, to seek better prospects for resistance to a disease and to survive climate change.
“A kind of bocachico you can put three thousand acfour thousand eggs, but since the technological packages of genetics and genomics have not been developed, the mortality rate of the species is very high, so if they put four thousand, they will die. 3,000 or 3,500, the breed is becoming extremely unproductive, but this is because it is not properly fed and cared for and body of water is violated and contaminated,” explained the genome research biologist.
Knowing the Bocachico genome looks to food safety as the main benefit, because United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), By 2030, fish will be the most affordable and beneficial source of animal protein for humans worldwide.
According to Yepes, the future benefit will be very high for Colombia, the second largest country in terms of fish in the world.
“It allows us to set conservation methodologies or strategies; as the country’s iconic species, it makes a greater contribution to Colombia’s food security, is more represented in the national fisheries, not just for food security, but for other birds, carnivores and other aquatic organisms.
HE bocachico is a detritivore fish, that is, it feeds on algae that are close to or adhered to surfaces.
It is classified as migratory and therefore defined at what times it can hunt. There are two migration phases, the first between December and March and the second between July and September.
But overfishing is in danger. More than 80,000 over 45 years tuna fish per year 80 percent approximately represented in this endemic species. According to experts, there was a sharp decline. 66.5 percentMore than the 80,000 tons mentioned in 1974 12,000 in recent years.
“The first fruitful activity before Christ was a meal option on the River Magdalene. “This is the first choice for food and food security and has allowed fishing communities to use this food to trade and get carbohydrates, rice,” said Javier Jesús Ovalle, regional director for the National Aquaculture and Fisheries Authority.Aunap) is headquartered in Barrancabermeja.
According to Ovalle, the main enemies of this species are males, but they are also natural predators. bream, catfish, tilefish, What are other types of fish? The extinction of this species will affect the entire food chain and reproductive system of the species.
have genome Helps Science, because it allows for species identification in this way so that management policies can be constructed to guarantee, ensure and exemplify the conservation of the species.
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“Bocachico has made such an impact that it remains one of the first income options for fishermen. Magdalena river to the marshes and in the installation process boom. The genome allows for reproduction to be done naturally, not by cultivation. Aunap official stated that we need to have a genetic bank to provide this species and bocachico samples.
Melissa Munera
Bucaramanga Correspondent
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