Re: [Killietalk] Fwd: Travel in Southeastern Peru

[Dan Wright <fishman43 at gmail_com>]

Any tips on how to find a Peruvian exporter?

On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Lonny Langione <lonlangione at comcast_net>wrote:

> And that was probably through a transhipper right Mark?
>
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> Dan,
> You basically need to find a licensed Peruvian exporter who will ship the
> fish for you.  They need to be shipped via air cargo to a licensed US
> importer who will clear them through USFWS (cost $215 for my last shipment
> with the increased fees) and customs.
> Mark
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Dan Wright <fishman43 at gmail_com> wrote:
>
> From: Dan Wright <fishman43 at gmail_com>
> Subject: Re: [Killietalk] Fwd: Travel in Southeastern Peru
> To: "killifish discussion list" <killietalk at actwin_com>
> Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 2:02 PM
>
> Great info regarding the travel when you are there.  My question is what is
> required to collect and export/import fish from Peru to the USA?
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Ken Simolo
> <Simolo at chem_chem.rochester.edu>wrote:
>
> > Posted forwarded from Dave Koran
> >
> > Some of you were intrigued by Brian Perkins post especially with respects
> > to
> > getting around.  Having been a member of the team that tried our luck in
> > March of 2006 basically you travel to Madre de Dios state in southeastern
> > Peru by air via Cuzco high in the Andes and hop to the capital of Madre
> de
> > Dios, Puerto Maldonado.  Puerto Maldonado is located within a large bend
> in
> > the Madre de Dios River.  You can get there by vehicle but it isn't
> easy.
> > Hopefully that soon won't be the case.  Currently there is an attempt
> to
> > extend the Trans-Amazonian highway from the Brazilian border to Cuzco,
> the
> > project being divided in 6 separate construction projects.  The reason
> for
> > the improvements is currently there is a need to reduce loads at the
> > Brazilian border to smaller trucks which can be ferried across the Madre
> de
> > Dios at Puerto Maldonado.  Brazil needs this corridor to transport
> soybeans
> > to the Peruvian coast for export to China and avoid the canal or the
> Cape.
> > Segment #2 is a bridge across the Madre de Dios while a couple of other
> > segments will need to climb the rugged foothills of the Andes, that part
> of
> > trip being unpredictable and sometimes going from days to weeks.
> >
> > So you land in Puerto Maldonado and you have only a few options - rental
> > vehicles are pretty much not an option - you travel by foot or bicycle or
> > be
> > carted around by taxi of which there are two varieties, either a Chinese
> > knock-off of a Toyota station wagon or a motor bike propelled two seater
> > cart
> > (called a ladybug if I remember) or else you travel by boat or ferry.  If
> > you
> > are close-in, you rent the services of a ladybug (& driver) to take
> you to
> > your site, but then you have limited space for gear and collected fish.
> > Longer trips you need to rent a cab and convince the driver to give up
> > other
> > fares for the day and take you to what may be very back roads.  Hence you
> > are
> > pretty much restricted to day-tripping in and out of the city.  You can
> > also
> > rent the services of motorized canoe which will take you up or down
> river,
> > land and then hoof it into the "jungle" with your gear to search
> for fish.
> > We did go upriver into the Las Piedras River which flows into the Madre
> de
> > Dios at Puerto Maldonado.  It was a 9 hour trip which netted us a
> distance
> > of
> > about 40 miles from the city (as the crow flies) making collecting a few
> > walk-to locations at least a 3 day effort.  Also a number of day trips
> also
> > involve crossing the river by ferry.
> >
> > The message is you are at the mercy of available transportation and this
> > puts
> > a big damper on the range which you can possibly collect.  While we
> > probably
> > found a new species of Aphyolebias in 2006, the Rivulus we collected were
> > most probably new populations of a single species, totally different than
> > my
> > experiences in Uruguay in 2004.
> >
> > Dave Koran
> >
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