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Man and Fisheries on an Amazon Frontier (Hardcover)
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Man and Fisheries on an Amazon Frontier (Hardcover)
Series: Developments in Hydrobiology, 4
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The southwestern Amazon basin, centering on the Territory of
Rondoenia and the State of Acre, is symbolically if not exactly
geographically, the Wild Wild West of Brazil's northern rainforest
fron tier. In Brazil the name Rondoenia evokes exaggerated images
of lawlessness, land feuding, and indigent peasants in search of a
homestead. Despite the problems and the perception, the region has
pushed ahead, in the view of the govern ment, with large-scale
deforestation and the establishment of cattle ranches and
agricultural farms raising manioc, rice, bananas, and other cash
crops. The mining industry has been launched with the exploitation
oftin stone, and the recent gold rush has attracted thousands of
miners that are sifting alluvial deposits along the rivers for the
precious ore. In an energy-short world, the region boasts of its
large hydroelectric potential waiting development in the rivers
falling off the Brazilian Shield and draining into the Rio Madeira.
Planners are optimistic that Rondoenia's resources, once developed,
will more than justify, at least in this corner of the rainforest
frontier, the Economic Conquest ofthe Amazon. Sandwiched between
the economic take-off and the dream, however, are the biological
resources - the plants and animals - that must serve as sources of
energy and food until human dominated ecosystems replace
naturaiones. These resources are, ofnecessity, being heavily
attacked to support the shaky economy of the region, but they are
very poorly understood in terms of potential productivity and
proper management.
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