Sustainability of fishing activities in Piúma county, off southern Espírito Santo State, Brazil

Authors

  • Thiago Holanda Basilio Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC) e Departamento de Engenharia de Pesca do Instituto Federal de Educação do Espírito Santo (IFES)
  • Edson Vicente da Silva Universidade Federal do Ceará.
  • Deuselio Bassini Fioresi Instituto Federal de Educação do Espírito Santo (IFES).
  • Marcelo Paes Gomes Instituto Federal de Educação do Espírito Santo (IFES).
  • Danielle Sequeira Garcez Instituto de Ciências do Mar, Universidade Federal do Ceará.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32360/acmar.v48i1.5865

Keywords:

empirical knowledge, traditional fishing communities, estuary and coast environments, participative management.

Abstract

This study was conducted from January, 2012 to February, 2015 to obtain the sustainability indexes of the fisheries’ activities  in Piúma county (Espírito Santo State, Brazil), through the description of fisheries systems using RAPFISH model - a method of  assessing the sustainability of fisheries with a multivariate ordination analysis of 54 attributes divided into five dimensions: social,  ecological, economic, technological and management. A number of variables categorized in numerical scales from 1 to 5 were determined  for all attributes and the weighted arithmetic mean was calculated for each system. There were 13 systems of fishing according to the  type of the fleet gear, fishing gears, target resource, exploited ecosystem, income of fishermen and labor relations. The sustainability  analysis showed that longline fisheries and thread are those with higher levels of sustainability. The other fisheries had, on average,  lower levels. The data show the importance of governmental, institutional, business and civil society support to maintain and ensure  the sustainability of the exploited environments, resources and fisheries. Integrated fishery studies are necessary to support the  formulation of concrete proposals, but also for the co-management of fishing activities in the region.

Published

2015-07-01

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