Acordo de pesca do Rio Caeté, Bragança, Pará: análise do processo de construção

Abstract

This research was developed from September 2019 to February 2023. The construction of this work was made by a bibliographic review about the theme: fishing agreements in the Amazon, use of common resource and territory, besides direct observation, semi structured interviews, use of participatory techniques (problem tree, participatory mapping, historical matrix) and analysis of collected data. According to demands of the riverside dweller communities on the Caeté River about improper fishing in the estuarine area and apprehension of fishing material, it was observed how the implementation process of the fishing agreement of Caeté River begun, such as it was analyzed several conflicts that occurred between the social actor in the space of the river that were narrated by the fishermen and community dwellers. Based on bibliographic research, the bragantina region is the first to develop a fishing agreement in the coastal region of Caeté, northeast of Pará. The fishing agreement of Caeté River is focused on at least 20 communities on the middle of Caeté River, situated on the bragantina coastal plain, northeast of Pará. The research aimed to comprehend the construction process of the fishing agreement of middle Caeté River in Bragança, Pará, analyzing the conflicts between the subject users of the space. By means of the collected data, it was determined that the conflicts of the local social groups with external fishermen and Public Bodies complicated the control and maintenance of fishing territories in the studied area. External and local fishermen introduced fishing practices that are considered “improper” by the communities as well as by environmental inspection agencies, causing several conflicts between them and the Municipal Inspection Agencies. Thus, it was possible to imply that the management rules locally established by the municipal secretariat of aquaculture and fishing of the city of Bragança together the fishermen showed an effective scenario in the maintenance of fishing stocks. Whereas that, it is noted that the agreement is an instrument of participative management, conditioning the access of a responsible way to natural resources of the estuarine where the traditional populations of the Caeté River live.