Determinación de la afectación aguas abajo de la represa del Quimbo sobre la ictiofauna de importancia económica

Abstract

The Hydroelectric sector in Colombia is part of the debate for the construction and operation of large dams necessary for the production of energy that is demanded, hydroelectric energy has been constituted as a less harmful energy alternative to otars such as thermoelectric, nuclear. the Quimbo dam emerges as an alternative of support for the generation of electric energy and compliance in technical terms of the life of betania, despite the benefits of hydropower, there are a series of impacts that compromise the populations dedicated to fishing and agriculture, one of the impacts of the massive fish mortality of commercial importance, the mortality of fish in the present study is associated with three moments, first the deviation of the river, the sedimentation by biomass in decomposition and chemical agents pollutants, this project consists of establishing whether the construction and operation of a hydroelectric and specific Quimbo have insidence in events of fish deaths, for this is proposed to make a comparison of a series of events in order to do follow-up over time to the behavior of the variables weight-volume and species diversity.