So Fruitful A Fish. Columbia University Press. 0231108303 You can purchase this book clicking here . Among these are fruit and seed eating fish.
None is more ecologically spectacular or economically vital than the tambaqui.
Considered one of the best-tasting freshwater fish in the world, it has now become a prime candidate for rainforest aquaculture. More than just a biology text, the book demonstrates how the tambaqui symbolizes the tight ecological link between rivers and rainforests and the need to conserve floodplaint habitats that are now being destroyed by cattle and water buffalo ranching. Its story will be of enormous benefit to ecologists, developers, fishery biologists, aquaculturists, conservationists, and others interested in the dramatic evolutionary complexities of tropical life. He has published widely in major English and Portuguese journals. M ichael Goulding is senior scientist at the Rainforest Alliance and director of its Amazon Wildlife Program.