PERU fishing with guts to report…
Save Spondylus Shell, given the evident decrease in the natural population, is one of the components of the "Mariculture and pscicultura for aquaculture development in Ecuador", implemented by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MAGAP).
The MAGAP, via the Department of Aquaculture and Fisheries, seeks to produce seed for stocking Spondylus Shell underwater area Islet El Pelado in the province of Santa Elena.
The initiative for this research came from a biological report Ayangue area (Santa Elena) in March and April 2010, conducted by the National Fisheries Institute (INP), which found a population density of 0.0002 organisms per square meter.
Luciano Delgado Sanz, a biologist at the Undersecretary of Fisheries, explained that the results of the study in conjunction with the INP revealed no live individuals in the sectors "The Peel", "The Old Woman", "Tello", "The
In this situation, in 2009 the Undersecretary of Fisheries declared a "permanent ban on the use Concha Spondylus Spondylus princeps calcifer and any form of capture, transport, marketing and consumption, until there are no scientific studies of population and sustainable utilization to support
The Undersecretariat of Aquaculture, in December 2012 the public company hired ESPOL TECH EP to produce the seed of this mollusc in the laboratories of the National Center for Aquaculture and Marine Research (CENAIM), the Escuela Superior Politecnica del Litoral (ESPOL) where professional research and laboratory tests were performed.
The state invested $ 159,000 in managing permissions for capturing the wild breeding stock, acclimatization and maturation inducing spawning, larval rearing phase and fixing larvae; and the pre-breeding seed and juveniles for stocking later testing.
120 copies Spondylus Shell captured, 111 were acclimated and fed with microalgae Isochrysis galbana and Chaetoceros gracilis species.
Since 2013, players Spondylus shell spawned seven times by mechanical stimuli, obtaining 112.5 million of fertilized eggs. Of these, high mortality, only 50 individuals were set in natural substrates (bases of mollusk shells).
In December 2014, the EP TECH ESPOL through the CENAIM-ESPOL given as a final product manual production of Spondylus shell; to subsequently undertake afforestation mollusk around the Marine Reserve El Pelado.
