Public policies and fishing activity in the Bragança City, Pará State, Amazon, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Jakson Brito
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Brabo, Marcos Ferreira, Nascimento, Josinaldo Reis do, Santos, Marcos Antônio souza dos, Siqueira, Adriana Castelo Branco de, Amaral, Maria Fernanda Brito do
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/7560
• topic: Local Development; Fomentation; Public management; Fisheries sector.; Desarrollo local; Fomentación; Gestión pública; Sector pesquero.; Desenvolvimento local; Fomento; Gestão pública; Setor pesqueiro.

Bragança City is responsible for one of the largest fishing landings in the Pará State, which promotes work and income for a significant portion of its population. This condition was brought about by actions by public authorities and private initiative that had a direct effect on local development in recent decades. The objective of this study was to analyze the influence of public policies from different administrative instances on fishing activity in the Bragança City. The public policies identified were temporally related to the structuring of the fishing productive chain based on historical records, production data, reports from social actors and a business census of the sector. It was found that the first public policies for the fishing sector in Brazil occurred in the colonial period, but only intensified in the second half of the 20th century. In Bragança, the state and municipal instances basically focused on the institutional scenario of the activity, with little effective results on its development, even for the low investment. Credit operations for fishing and the migration of fleets from other brazilian states represented landmarks in the municipality, as they increased the demand for inputs, increased fishing landings and enabled the installation of processing establishments. It was concluded that the public policies of the federal instance and the migration of the fisheries of Caribbean red snapper Lutjanus purpureus and lobster Panulirus spp. from the Brazilian Northeast to the region were the actions that most impacted fishing activity in the Bragança City, which experienced its heyday in terms of structuring between 1990 and 2005.