Aspectos econômicos e socioambientais relativos à sustentabilidade dos recursos pesqueiros na Reserva de Desenvolvimento sustentável (RDS) do Piranha - Manacapuru-AM

Abstract

For historical reasons, consumption of fish culture is present in the Amazon long ago, and is a basic component of the local diet. The potential of fisheries resources is the proposal for a study of this dissertation that addresses the issue by means of two concepts: a conceptual and other practice, taking as the study of Reserve for Sustainable Development of the Piranha s Lake, located in the city of Manacapuru, inside the State of Amazonas. The general objective of this dissertation was to analyze the potential of fisheries resources in the Sustainable Development Reserve of the Piranha, with a view to sustainable management. This required identifying the economic potential of sustainable fisheries for the Piranha RDS; tracing the socio economic profile of the population living in the RDS and their vision of the Piranha on fisheries resources available in reserve. Regarding the methodological procedures, it is a literature search and a case study. The literature search was carried out taking up work as the basis of scientific character, published and catalogued through occasional publications, newspapers, magazines, books, monographs and Internet s sites. Already the case study, which involved a documentary research and a search of field, was held in the RDS of the Piranha. The subjects of research the residents of the RDS of the Piranha. In the reserve live about 66 families. In the sample search involving 66 heads of family, of which a questionnaire was administered. At the end of the survey concluded that fish, with a view to sustainable management, is as viable economic alternative to the Reserve for Sustainable Development of Piranha. The fish is a source of food, income and employment and fish stocks have the potential for economic sustainability of local residents in the Reserve for Sustainable Development of the Piranha. Fish farming is a viable economic alternative to the reserve, as if to meet requirements of management, meets the paradigm of sustainable development, since a search activity ecologically balanced and socially just. Fishing culture is an activity with very promising prospects in the RDS Piranha, both to increase the supply to meet demand of fish, including between harvest and to assist in the preservation of species (such as the tambaqui and pirarucu), species that have great market acceptance by its rapid growth.