Oral presentation

Hello everybody, good afternoon! My name is Guillermo Mateos and I'm going to show you my TDR project that is about the study of embrionary development and reproduction of fartet.

I chose this topic for two reasons: the first one is that when I did primary in St Pere Pescadir, we had a exposition about this fish, since this moment I'm interesting with it.
The second reason is that I always like animals, and how this fish is in danger of esxctintion I wanted to investigated about it. And if its possible keep it the species.

My main objectives were:

- Investigate the reproduction and the embrionary development of fartet.
- Analize the possibility of doing controlled repopulation in captivity.

My TDR has two parts:

One is the theoryc part where I had to search information about the fartet in magazines or other projects about the same.

The second is the practic experience. To do this project I needed capture some fartets and how this fishes are protectet by the law I had to get a permission from mediambient. The permission permits me capture 6 fishes. After I talked with the director of Aiguamolls de l'Empordà to permits me go to this lake that is the only place where exists in all the Alt Empordà. I capture the fishes with tramps and a net to fish.

Since all this time with the TDR I have observated the behavior of the fishes, the egglaying and the developement of the fishes.

When I finished all this I could do my final conclusions, the main were:
- The fartet is a gregarious species, it means that swim make groups.
- Males are more independents.
- Is an species who adapting to life in captivity.
- The eggs are very resistant.
- Larves are very pigmented.
- And in all the experience there wasn't any death.

And the last conclusion and the main important is that doing repopulations of fartet in captivity is a good idea to try to recuper the species. But the best solution is respect the enviroment, and not destroyed the habitat of this fish.