All Fishes Regional Perspectives Region: South America

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All Fishes Regional PerspectivesRegion South
America

• Southeastern Pacific and Southatlantic.

Ricardo Galleguillos Ciro Oyarzún Dept.
Oceanography University of Concepción, Chile
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Area covered in Chile

• Fishes from Chilean continental shelf and slope.
• Potentially fishes from Easter Island and Juan
  Fernandez Archipelago and Sub Antarctic areas.

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Number of fish species
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Species used in Chile as fishery resources
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Brief summary of plans for facilitating area
coverage CHILE

• Net contact from north to southern Chile through
  universities
• MNHN-Chile (Santiago) and Regional Museums.
• Fishery Industries. Central, Southern and
  Austral. Mainly demersal and pelagic fishes.

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Has COI sequenced started in this region yet?

• NO as far I concern

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Fish collectors in region

• University of Concepción, MNHN-Chile, Several
  colleagues along the Chilean coast We have
  regular contact and academic agreement with them.
• Ecuador, Peru, Argentina (see next slides)

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Fish taxonomists in region
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Fish taxonomists in region
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Fish taxonomists in region
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Deposition plans for voucher specimens

• In the case of tissue samples we can offer space
  in the new Center for biotechnology at University
  of Concepcion, and the Genetic Lab. in the
  Faculty of Agronomy at University of Chile.
• Fish specimens will be stored, previous
  agreement, in Museums and Fish Collection in
  Universities.

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Funding sources (present if any potential future
funding)

• Potential future funding CONICYT (National
  Commission of Science and Technology). Grant for
  applied science and technology (FONDEFF, FONTEC)
  with supply money from the industries.
• Small Grant from internal Research Direction at
  University of Concepcion and others.
• FIP (Funds for Fisheries Research)
• We have Grants to work in stocks definition,
  mainly on Merluccius species, on Genypterus and
  Clupeiforms
• South American countries could apply to
  respectives national agencies for research

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Other comments Fish taxonomy

• In some Southamerican countries there are
  extensive works solving taxonomic problems for
  the major groups of fishes.
• Chile. During the last 25 years, the Chilean
  Association of Ichthyology has been working to
  join and coordinate samples collection.

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Other comments Genetics

• In South America there are facilities for working
  in genetic markers. (Funds for short visits
  training in COI amplification and sequencing).
• Capacity Building
• U. of Chile, has specialized laboratories working
  with molecular markers and genetic improvement
  applied to aquaculture (salmon species),
  population genetics.
• U. of Concepcion has experience working with
  population genetics of marine fishes and
  mollusks, using both protein electrophoresis and
  DNA (mtDNA and microsatellites).
• In the near future a new Center for biotechnology
  with modern equipment. (Biological Resources
  Bank)
• Genetic Biodiversity (Developing group).

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Future Regional actions

• To create a coordination initially between Peru,
  Argentina and Chile to
• - Funds regional (CPPS), national
• - samples and standardize labs protocols.
• The next step should include Ecuador, Uruguay and
  Brazil.

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