Breeding rare fish in the Amazon could prevent them becoming extinct
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SHOTLIST
Belem, Brazil, June 25 2008
1. Wide shot of boats in fishing harbour; tilt down to fishermen working
2. Fishermen unloading fish
3. Inside Belem fish market; pan to researcher holding large fish
4. Close up of Tambaqui fish
5. Researcher Jaime Carvalho looking at fish in market
6. Close of armoured fish in his hand
7. Researchers walking with fish tank
8. Close up researcher pointing at tank
9. Hand grabs fish from tank
10. Shows zebra pleco fish
11. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Jaime Carvalho, Freshwater Ecologist, Federal University of Par�:
"You almost can't find specimens this large in the region, because they were intensely fished."
12. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Jaime Carvalho, Freshwater Ecologist, Federal University of Par�:
"We have more than sixty commercial varieties of plecos. Each year new varieties are discovered. That is what the exporters and the fishermen are doing, seeing who finds new varieties, new rarities, and the price varies accordingly."
June 26 2008
13. Wide of shop owner couching beside man made tropical fish pond
14. Owner points, camera pans to various fish in pond
15. GV fish in pond
16. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Marcelo Leite, Aquarium Shop Owner:
"The demand is always growing. These (plecos) are more exotic and rare species, both in Brazil and worldwide"
17. Wide fish in grassy tank
18. Tropical fish (pleco) in rubber gloved hand
June 2, 2008
19. Tilt up from front of motorboat showing wide shot of Xingu River
20. Motorboat on river
21. Diver jumps into water.
22. GV Divers coming out of water with jars full of small pleco fish.
23. Tilt down from diver's upper half to his jar of fish
24. Hand emptying contents of jar in white basin
25. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Fisherman:
"A lot of fishermen are out of a job, because those of us who make a living out of fish, have nothing but this profession. Since they started forbidding (this practice) a lot of fisherman have resorted to sell ice cream lollies."
26. Man walks with fish in hand, holds it up for camera as he talks.
27. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Jackson Bravo, President of Ornamental Fish Cooperative in Altamira:
"This one here right now, among the legal fish is number one, it's a Baryancistrus, the only fish that generates a better profit for the fisherman and for the companies."
28. Same fish swimming in box.
29. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) Jackson Bravo, President of Ornamental Fish Cooperative in Altamira:
"They like this one a lot, because of the yellow colour, many people know it as 'Gold Nugget', in the south of the country."
30. Close up same fish in hand
31. Fish in box, zoom out to fish deposit where fish are being prepared for shipping.
32. Close up tilt down men injecting oxygen inside plastic bags with fish in them.
33. Wide plastic bags ready for shipping.
LEAD IN:
Ornamental fish from the Amazon are increasingly popular among rare fish collectors, but some species are in danger of extinction.
Exports of the Zebra pleco - a black and white fish from the catfish family - are banned, but they continue.
In the Xing� river, a tributary of the Amazon in north west Brazil, 500 divers make a living from selling pleco and other rare fish.
Now conservationists are hoping that a breeding plan could be the solution to prevent extinction.
STORYLINE
The rivers of the Amazon basin hold an enormous variety of fish.
Something between 2 and 3 thousand species, many of which are yet to be given a scientific name.
A taste of this diversity can be had early in the morning at the fish harbour in Belem, a large city in the delta of the Amazon River.
Some researchers even do field work here.
The large round shaped tambaqui is one of the prime food dishes in the Amazon.
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