Cachama farming as a socio-productive alternative.

Abstract

Fish farming (fish farming in captivity) is a great alternative for the development of communities and regions, while promoting the preservation of species that are in danger of extinction. This activity allows the development of investment projects, with the aim of achieving the supply of animal protein for the most needy sectors; since it is a food with high nutritional value, it also represents an economic alternative that generates direct and indirect jobs for some producers in the different regions of the country. In this sense, the cultivation of cachama (Colossoma macropomum, Cuvier, 1816), has allowed the development of aquaculture in our country; particularly this fish is widely distributed in the Orinoco and throughout the Amazon basin and has represented for several years an excellent product of river fishing. It is a species that reproduces in captivity; It meets a series of conditions that favor its cultivation, for this reason it is considered one of the most requested native species by fish farmers for cultivation (Fontaine, 1999).