Training in ancestral communities for cage culture of tilapia (oreochromissp. and oreochromisniloticus).

Abstract

The San Vicente dam is located in the upper basin of the Javita River in the northwest of the Province of Santa Elena. It is a 25 m high earthen dam that dams about 40 Hm3 that will be distributed through channels to carry the vital liquid by gravity, favoring the communities located in various sectors such as: Colonche, San Marcos, Bellavista, Manantial de Guangala, Manantial de Colonche, Jambelí, Palmar, Bambil Desecho, Rio Seco, Aguadita and Cerezal, it is established that 26,000 hectares would benefit in the province of Santa Elena (CEDEGÉ, 1984). The Undersecretary of Aquaculture, together with representatives of the Ministry of the Littoral, Environment and the inhabitants of the different communities of the Province of Santa Elena, witnessed the planting of 120,000 of the 500,000 tilapia fingerlings donated by the company MODERCORP that were planted in the San Vicente de Colonche dam. (SA, 2008). Since they were planted, the tilapia have grown and reproduced without any control, generating a high population density, reducing the space for these organisms to move in the body of water, and as a result, their sizes have decreased, affecting the availability of the resource in larger sizes that satisfy local consumers. The few job opportunities in the rural communities have led them to dedicate themselves to other activities that the area offers them, and fishing in the dam as a complement to their daily sustenance, without predicting or preventing the risks that these activities represent.