Author(s)

Christian Nunes da Silva¹, Eduardo Schiavone Cardoso²

¹Federal University of Pará (UFPA), Belém, Brazil.
²Federal University on Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria, Brazil.

The fishing activity has been known for centuries by man and is configured as an important source of livelihood and income for many families of Brazilian fishermen. This article tries to do a brief contextualization of fishing in Brazil, as well as discuss the notion of territoriality of sector policies. The trend shown for the future is the need for a planning/mapping of operation areas of productive agents in the country, so that fish stocks can be managed more appropriately. One of the proposals that comes with acceptance and is already being applied in some municipalities is fishing agreements, using co-management mechanisms for planning and use of fisheries resources.

Fishing and Fishermen, Colony of Fishermen, Brazil, Agreements

Silva, C. and Cardoso, E. (2015) Fishermen and Territorial Trends in the Brazilian Fisheries Policies. International Journal of Geosciences, 6, 339-349. doi: 10.4236/ijg.2015.64027.