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It usually takes three to four days to transport fish from Carauari municipality — a major pirarucu producer — to Manaus, the Amazon´s largest city.

At the end of the 1970s, to accompany his future wife, Vera Maria Fonseca de Almeida, the biologist and São Paulo native Adalberto Luiz Val moved from São Carlos, in inland São Paulo State, to Manaus, ...

Amazonian Capital Struggles Amid a State of Climate Dystopia Forest fires and severe drought leave Manaus choking on smoke, and communities cut off.

Ichthyologist Lucia Rapp Py-Daniel preserves and catalogues the fish of Amazonian waters as their numbers fall because of industrial development.

Maersk said in a separate statement the severe drought has hit 60 of the 62 municipalities in Amazonas state, causing cabotage service to and from Manaus to be temporarily suspended.

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Conservationists say a sustainable fishing program has helped the recovery of the local pirarucu — which can be up to 10-feet long and weigh 450 pounds.