They hope that establishing a viable, regulated sport fishing operation can offer economic opportunity to the natives, and reinforce an incentive to protect these fish and rivers for generations. The Guyanese government gave special permission, and the local Amerindian (Makushi) tribe partnered with Costa del Mar to organize expeditions to see if arapaimas could be caught with flies. Yet near the village of Rewa in the interior of Guyana, amidst the largest intact rainforest in the world, they are protected, so the population is robust enough to offer anglers opportunities to match wits, and muscle, with this ultimate freshwater beast. Native to jungle rivers in South America, they’ve been over-harvested to the point that wild populations are extremely rare. These fish are often called “swimming dinosaurs” because they are the world’s largest freshwater species with scales.
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