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Analysis of the marine ornamental fish trade at Ceará State, northeast Brazil

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Brazil is one of the leading exporters of ornamental fishes, mostly freshwater; however, monitoring of the trade is nearly non-existent in the country. This paper provides an initial assessment of a new venture, the marine aquarium fish trade at Ceará State, northeast Brazil, aiming to document the species traded, to provide preliminary estimates of numbers of specimens traded, and to identify priorities in data collection and monitoring. A total of 143 species and 199 304 fishes were traded. From the total, 109 species were native and represented 84% of the fishes traded. Thirty-four exotic species figured on the permits and amounted to nearly 16% of the exports; however, most of them consist of misidentified native species. Nearly 90% of the fish trade was directed to the international market. Official figures represent an underestimation of the total number of captured specimens.

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  1. Departamento de Biologia Marinha, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, 24001-970, Brazil

    Cassiano Monteiro-Neto

  2. Grupo de Ictiologia Marinha Tropical – IMAT, Departamento de Engenharia de Pesca, Laboratório de Biologia Aquática, Universidade Federal do Ceará, Campus do Pici, s/n, Fortaleza, CEP 60356-000, Brazil

    Cassiano Monteiro-Neto, Francisca Edna De Andrade Cunha, Mara Carvalho Nottingham & Maria Elizabeth Araújo

  3. CCEN, Departamento de Sistemática e Ecologia, Universidade Federal da Paraíba, João Pessoa, 58059-900, Brazil

    Ierecê Lucena Rosa

  4. Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis-CE, Av, Visconde do Rio Branco 3900, Fortaleza, 60025-062, Brazil

    Glaura Maria Leite Barros

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Monteiro-Neto, C., De Andrade Cunha, F.E., Carvalho Nottingham, M. et al. Analysis of the marine ornamental fish trade at Ceará State, northeast Brazil. Biodiversity and Conservation 12, 1287–1295 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1023096023733

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