Os saberes tradicionais dos pescadores de caranguejo-uçá e o manguezal: o caso de Tamatateua Bragança - Pará, costa Amazônica brasileira

Abstract

This study focuses on the empirical knowledge and environmental perceptions of Uçá crab (Ucides cordatus) fishermen from the Tamatateua region, municipality of Bragança, northeast of Pará. The main objective is to describe the fishermen's traditional knowledge on this resource focusing on the ecological knowledge from their perceptions and close relationship with the mangrove ecosystem. used the qualitative research approach, in which the technique and the research instrument were carried out using interviews from a questionnaire designed with semi-structured questions, respectively. Data collection took place between 2017 and 2018, with 14 (fourteen) fishermen of Uçá crab, aged between 22 and 62 years, in which the analytical process made use of content analysis. The results demonstrate that the fishermen have elaborated ecological knowledge about the Uçá crab specimen, as well as the natural and environmental phenomena. They perceive the connection between the human being and the mangrove as a synonym of food, marketing, culture, religiosity, among others, which, in some way, directly influence the knowledge passed on from generation to generation through non-formal and informal education. It was also found that the management of the Uçá crab resource is due to the learning process that occurs daily between kinship (father, son, grandson, uncles and others), as well as in the process and socialization (sharing) between friends of the “ mangrove". On the other hand, it was identified that even using predatory practices and arts, such as the hook, the fishermen recognize them as such, but reveal the idea of maintaining the resource when arguing about the respect in the reproduction periods of the specimen.