O espaço do mar e o tempo da pesca: reflexões sobre pesca artesanal na Vila do Castelo/Bragança-PA

Abstract

This paper arises from the field research with artisanal fishermen in the village of Castelo, located in the town of Bragança-PA, from June 2015 to March 2016. Our intention was to understand the relationship of shrimp fishermen in the region and its trade flow. During the research, we faced other possibilities and wishes of those social actors, and the present work was being molded within its objectives as we approached, in a wider way, the reality of fishing, now not only directed to the catch of white shrimp, but with the desire to understand the dynamics of its space/time organization and also the tensions that surround the fishing environment, not only in local aspects, but in national ones, with a direct impact on the artisanal fishermen lives. Under this perspective, this paper will emphasize the temporal and spatial dynamics of fishermen who increasingly experience economic and political impacts related to fishing. Thus, our approach with artisanal fishermen has allowed moments of reflection, not only about the fishing itself, but about environmental issues in the context of the tensions experienced in the Resex.