O conhecimento ecológico local como ferramenta na gestão pesqueira participativa: um estudo de caso com os marisqueiros de Livramento, Santa Rita-PB

• Autor(a) principal: D'angelis, Igor Alex Binder
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/4551
• topic: Pesca artesanal; Gestão compartilhada; Estuário do Rio Paraíba; Marisco; Artisanal fishing; Co-management; Paraíba River Estuary; Shellfish; CIENCIAS BIOLOGICAS::ECOLOGIA

One of the most significant ecosystems in coastal areas in tropical regions is the mangrove-estuary complex. Artisanal fishers are the main users of mangrove resources. In Brazil artisanal fisheries are based on species that live or spend significant portion of their life cycle in these environments. Therefore fisheries management needs to be understood as an important tool to ensure the existence of this activity while ensuring the conservation of resources and ecosystems. In doing so, this study aimed to understand the local ecological knowledge of shellfish gatherers from Livramento community and analyze the limits and possibilities of this knowledge in building a participatory management, besides highlighting the current situation of Brazil and Paraiba state in sharing of fisheries management between the State and users. It was demonstrated that Brazil has many examples of co-management, especially in the North. It lies being implemented a system that aims to include local stakeholders in the management, but is restricted to consultation and the final decisions are taken by the State. In Paraíba, the management of fisheries resources is restricted to protected areas, which do not have management plans, there is a regulated management, hindering the process of user participation. The dependence of protected areas for management of resources is a limiting factor and are not always in agreement with local realities. For this reason, it is necessary to consider new forms of management that better communicate with the political-social-environmental reality of fishing communities. While assessing the knowledge of shellfish gatherers studied, it was revealed that these fishermen have a significant ecological knowledge about the species used (Anomalocardia brasiliana) and their environment. According to the level of details given by these fishermen was possible to highlight some elements observed in an ethnoecological evaluation that aims a management which sharing occurs, not only of ruling between State and community but knowledge among fishermen and academics.