Collecting Tropical Fish in the Peruvian Amazon : Photos

New 1996 preview (proofsheet)

• 1996 Pictures

The River

• River bank and canoes
• River bank with typical lagoon in back
• Delfin at St. Ursula (thanks Pat)
• Closeup of above
• Pete snagged a piranha one dawn
• Typical creek entrance
• How many Angels can dance on the palm of Judy's hand?
• Angelfish
• Wolffish head
• Francis and Dr Bird empty handed (thanks Ron)
• This kid didn't drive much of a bargain for his turtle
• Big turtle in Albert's hands
• Little turtle
• Ron and Parrot at Indiana Market (Bigger Version)
• This way to the amazon!
• Ursula and Pete on board
• Child with big knife
• Waiting on board
• House on Puffer Corner
• River scene
• Loading bananas in Iquitos
• Our 2 star hotel in Iquitos

The Market

• Iquitos town square
• Amazon from Iquitos
• Medicine shop
• Silver Dollars
• Juicy piranhas
• Roast bananas, plecos and anostomids
• Filleted Oscars
• Pacu
• Pyramid of freshwater Drum
• Bucket of flapping live Plecos
• Delicious Cichla (not ocellaris, the peruvian form is different (name?))
• Tiger Catfish
• Plate of small catfish makes a great snack
• Cleaning fish
• Pleco seller
• Dianema again
• The local herbalist. What is Una de Gato?

In the Wet Room

• Mr Apisto looking very satisfied
• Sheltering in the channel during the storm
• Ursula's catfish bucket
• Francis and Maricos tease Ursula's Banjo Catfish
• Packing rivulus. Wish there was more headroom!
• Hey Ron, were those apistos from the Yanayacu or the Apayacu?

Back home in Tokyo

Back in Tokyo I had time to take some close ups of some of the fish I caught. These photos are large.

• Pencilfish
• Pencilfish (super close up)
• Baby "jurupari" about 10mm long
• Compare size of pencil fish and baby "jurupari"

Read All About It

All these accounts and photos are by other people who made the same trip.

• Chris Scharpf's well written diary of a 1990 collecting trip!
• Ron Belliveau's Tales from the Peruvian Amazon and The Amazon Gallery.
• Glen Osterhout's has even more photos from the trip
• George Lin's Druid's Cove

All are highly recommended!

Frequently Asked Questions

• What to bring to the Amazon: a packing list
• fishman@vnet.net (Ronald J Belliveau) is leading another trip on July 12 ,1997: Join his mailing list!
• Project Amazonas can organize you an eco-tour.

Other Fish Collecting Resources

Descriptions of trips by other people on the web

• Collecting Cichlids in the Peruvian Amazon

Photos copyright © 1995, 1996 F.B.O'Carroll

ocarroll@acm.org (Frank O'Carroll)

Last changed Thu, 21 Aug 1997 12:52:57 +0900 (JST)