Políticas de desenvolvimento da pesca e a aquicultura: Conflitos e resistências nos territórios dos pescadores e pescadoras artesanais da Vila do Superagüi, Paraná, Brasil / Fishery and aquaculture development policies: Conflicts and resistances in the territories of artisanal fishers of Superagui village, Paraná, Brazil.

• Main Authors: Mercedes Solá Pérez, Jorge Ramón Montenegro Gómez
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Editora da Universidade Federal de Uberlândia 2014-04-01
• Series: Revista Sociedade & Natureza
• Subjects: Artisanal fishers; Conflicts and resistances; Fishery and aquaculture development policies; Living territories.
• Online Access: http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/sociedadenatureza/article/view/18310/pdf_68

This investigation is about the conflicts and resistances that the application of developmental public policies is generating in the territories of the artisanal fishers of the Superagüi Village. These are development policies related to fishery and aquaculture. This artisanal fishers that were already affected in their territories by the sustainable development policies with the installation of the Parque Nacional do Superagüi that’s already limiting their natural assets, are also suffering from the impositions of the fishery and aquaculture policy. The fishers that are currently pushed to specialize in fishery are in conflict in their living territories because the policies of modernization of fishery and aquaculture are pushing to industrial fishing, to incorporate modern equipment and to establish aquaculture areas. The reading of the field’s reality along with a reading of the development from references of the post-development shows that those policies are attached to foreign interests, excluding the artisanal fishers, denying their traditional ways of reproducing life, taking away the lands that they traditionally occupy and commodifying their life. Based on these conflicts, the community creates resistances as a social movement and demanding their living territories.