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Source: Made by the authors.
Source: Made by the authors.
Production and gross revenue reached
The production and gross revenue achieved by fish culture in clay mining pits are
better represented in the Table 4.
Source: Made by the authors.
Table 2 - Cost of production the Tambaqui and Pirarucu species
Components Unit Quantity
Prices Mar/2007
Unit price Total price
A – VARIABLE COSTS
1 – Inputs
Tambaqui fingerlings thousand 14 37.00 518.00
Pirarucu fingerlings thousand 1,5 4,519.00 6,778.50
Limestone T 80 31.00 2.480,00
Extruded Food kg 48.542 0.45 21,843.90
Cow dung
2 – Manpower
Distribution of limestone, people with finger-
kg 275 1.20 330.00
lings, food, control, inspection, daily sampling
of fish and removal of fish (monthly salary
plus 13th salary)
Months 26 325.30 8,458.00
C – TOTAL COST U$ 40,408.40
Species
Table 3 - Representation of the results achieved by the biomass of
tambaqui and pirarucu in clay mining pits in the ceramic Santa Maria
Average Weight
(kg)
initial final
consumption
of food
(food / kg)
food
conversion
(e = food:
fish)
mortality
total
survival
initial
biomass
(kg)
final
biomass
(kg)
Table 4 - Gross revenue reached in the activity of fish culture
Innovation applied to the recovery of degraded areas..., Marcelo R. dos Anjos, Francisco A. de Andrade e Pamela M. R. Monte, p. 23-36
improvement
of biomass
(kg)
Tambaqui 0.2 2 36,512 2:1 2,800 11,200 2,800.00 22,400 19,600
Pirarucu 0.1 20 12,000 3:1 270 1,230 150.00 24,600 24,450
Total 0.3 22 48,542 3,070 12,430 2,950.00 47,000 44,050
Species Production (kg) Selling Price (U$/kg) Gross Revenue (U$)
Tambaqui 22,400 2.40 53,760.00
Pirarucu 24,600 3.91 96,186.00
Total 47,000 6.31 149,946.00
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