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December 22, 2011 – 10:05 am
Rene and crew managed to make it out to the Condofish site last week for a picture update of the project. The storms in October and unprecedented undersea currents managed to disorganize some of the condo fish structures below. The most important news is thatmarine life is still in the reef project living in perfect harmony with the calcium rich concrete blocks. Fortunately, Fish do not seem that concerned care about their condo architecture. Even thought most tenants failed to file their insurance policy on time, they continue to love their blocky structures and use them as safe place for their eggs.
Our new prototype fish condo using a steel reinforced frame manage to stay strong and remain unaffected by the unusually strong currents. We plan on building more reinforced structures throughout the project and forge ahead!
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February 24, 2011 – 5:49 pm
After putting up 4 buoys marking off the project in a square above the water and building a border around the entire project underwater, fishermen still continue to do damage to our project. We have no issue with the casual sport fisherman or the motivated spear-fisher, but when fishermen drop their nets and drag them across a government sanctioned project and destroy our artificial reef units it’s totally unacceptable. Last week we had to rebuild a unit that was destroyed by a fishing net that was caught and pulled a structure apart. It seems that every month or so we’re cleaning up after irresponsible fishermen dragging their gear straight through the project.
We are working to build new, stronger, and more reinforced structures, but it’s unbelievable that fishermen are still dropping their nets in the protected zone. This is MINAE protected zone. If you see or know anyone that uses the CondoFish area to drop nets or anchors…….tell them the government is watching them and that what they’re doing is bad for the Playa Hermosa community and the fish population in the bay.
We are helping to increase the fish population in the area! Why slow CondoFish down?
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Who is MINAE?
“As a resource with enormous potential, the biodiversity in Costa Rica plays an instrumental role in the country’s development. As compared to the other tropical regions in the world, this tiny Latin American country contains great diversity of species and ecosystems.
The institution responsible for implementation, management and the administration of biodiversity in Costa Rica is the MINAE (Ministry of the Environment and Energy). This government agency is responsible for the coordination of all issues regarding conservation and natural resources in the country.
Managing the National Parks and Wildlife Refuges of Costa Rica, MINAE responded to the growing conservation needs of the country and created 11 Conservation Areas. The department of SINAC (National System of Conservation Areas) oversees and manages the public lands and is headed by a Directorate that provides technical support. These Conservation Areas undertake a decentralized management of biodiversity with the active participation of the local communities surrounding the protected areas.
There are several units in MINAE that includes: Costa Rican Technical Unit, Geology and Mining, Meteorology and the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC). SINAC specializes in policies related to conservation and its management.The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) for Costa Rica has developed several conservation programs for the endangered wildlife of the region. It collects vital data, surveys and documents the evidence for marine turtles and jaguar predating. The collected data helps in managing projects related to conservation of animals.
MINAE strives for high levels of environmental protection and conservation. The various ongoing projects have helped foster bilateral objectives regarding environmental protection. Thanks to the conservation efforts of MINAE and the support of the private sector, the percentage of protected territory in the country has increased. During the past few years MINAE has been able to ensure that great emphasis is placed on implementing the accumulated studies and methodologies for the benefit of protected areas. Ecotourism, biosphere projects, environmental service payments and medicinal plantation are just some of the programs that it has been able to implement.
The continued efforts of MINAE have facilitated in improving the environmental laws, strengthening the animal preservation policies and increasing public awareness. These objectives have been achieved by training and education of the public sector, broadening the citizen’s participation in preservation projects, technical assistance and through the exchange of information.”
MINAE Aerticle from GoVisitCostaRica.com
-http://www.govisitcostarica.com/sustainability/article.asp?atid=43
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January 20, 2011 – 8:43 am
Here we’d like to acknowledge our first European sponsor! La Faitafondue
Comme le dit si bien l′illustrissime amuseur public FRANK MARICHAL, les belges ont une brique dans le ventre.
Ceci dit, FRANK MARICHAL et son fameux restaurant LAFAITAFONDUE, deviennent les premiers SPONSORS européens du projet CONDOFISH – www.condofish.com initie par son copain et compatriote Christian LeMouche au Costa Rica.
Très prochainement apparaitra dans l′album du CONDOFISH, une photo sous-marine avec le logo de LAFAITAFONDUE – RESTAURANT.
Visitez le site www.condofish.com , des textes en français expliquent les tenants et aboutissants de ce projet hors du commun.
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January 2, 2011 – 4:42 am
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how the Condofish blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 8,400 times in 2010. That’s about 20 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 22 new posts, not bad for the first year! There were 245 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 84mb. That’s about 5 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was July 23rd with 481 views. The most popular post that day was Welcome.
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were condofish.com, facebook.com, instructables.com, playahermosabeach.org, and stumbleupon.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for condofish, artificial reef, condofish.com, benthic zone, and lise lacaille costa rica.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
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Welcome June 2010
4 comments
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Marine Life Moving In June 2010
2 comments
3
Media May 2010
1 comment
4
History May 2010
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Galleries June 2010
Rene and crew managed to make it out to the Condofish site last week for a picture update of the project. The storms in October and unprecedented undersea currents managed to disorganize some of the condo fish structures below. The most important news is thatmarine life is still in the reef project living in perfect harmony with the calcium rich concrete blocks. Fortunately, Fish do not seem that concerned care about their condo architecture. Even thought most tenants failed to file their insurance policy on time, they continue to love their blocky structures and use them as safe place for their eggs.
