Os múltiplos territórios dos pescadores tradicionais do litoral amazônico brasileiro: da invisibilidade à negligência

Abstract

In the last decades, public investments, technological advances and population growth have led to the breaking of barriers that historically limited the use of Amazonian coastal marine ecosystems, causing threats to the traditional fishermen´s way of life and the conservation of these important ecosystems. Therefore, the government has sought to reconcile the multiple interests on the Amazon coast, as well as to meet the territorial claims of these traditional populations, through the creation of conservation units, resulting in the largest continuous protected mangrove forest in the world. However, the lack of a proper perception of the multiple territories that make up these traditional fishermen’s way of life, has contributed for their conquests to be rights and not in fact. Thus, this research aims, through the case study of the coast of Pará and an approach based on historical and theoretical context, to contribute to a better perception of these multiple territories of traditional fishermen and to overcome the productive x unproductive dichotomy that has guided fisheries management in the Amazon.