(Universidade Federal do Pará, 2021-03) OLIVEIRA, Marcelo do Vale; ALVES, Alexandre de Brito
Our objective was to bright the knowledge related the socio-environmental practices of the crab pickers
of the Pontinha de Bacuriteua community in Bragança-PA. To understand the way of life, an
interdiplinary qualitative approach on artisanal fishing and fishing communities was necessary,
encompassing areas of knowledge such as antropology, sociology and history. The applied methodology
was composed of semi-structured interviews, aided by direct observation. The main results were the
identification that the knowledge of the biological cycles of the crab, the movements of the tides, the
phases of the moon, the physical-chemical composition of soil are the essential instruments in the
capture of the crustacean in focus. Such are composed of a set of knowledge that the gunners learned
with and for previous generations and which are put into practice when moving around their workplaces,
daily
