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Fuentes Obeid, S., Marin, A. S., & Marulanda, M. A. (2003). Importancia de la jicotea (trachemys scripta callirostris: chelonia: emydidae) como recuso natural en la comunidad de isla del coco, region de la mojana, departamento de sucre, colombia. Revista Biologia (Havana), 17(2), 126–133.
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| Resource type: Journal Article BibTeX citation key: FuentesObeid2003 View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Habitat = habitat, Schildkröten = turtles + tortoises, Südamerika = South America Creators: Fuentes Obeid, Marin, Marulanda Collection: Revista Biologia (Havana) |
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The population's low cultural level in La Mojana, Departamento de Sucre, Colombia is highlighted, and this determines that people must makes use of the natural resources for subsistence, because they don't have access to well remunerated job positions. The hicotea plays an important role for the whole community, since the wide consumption of this species is common among the population, as well as the commercialization of this species, mainly during the Holy Week. The fishermen point to the over exploitation of the species as the fundamental cause of its decrease in the area, but they add that this is due to the great quantity of people from other territories that hunt in Isla del Coco, even using very harmful techniques for the species, such as the burning of their habitat and others. It could be determined that the same number of fishermen use almost half the time to capture a similar quantity of animals in the winter as in the summer. The females are captured more often than the males, because they are bigger, which implies an obvious damage for the species that the fishermen recognize. The fishing arts vary from season to season, the “chuzo galapaguero” being the most used in the dry season and the “flecha” in the winter. There is no protection project for neither this or any other species in the Island, but the immense majority would collaborate in some such project in order to achieve a rational exploitation of the fauna, as was outlined in the Environmental Education workshops accomplished during the realization of this work.
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