Geography was always concerned with the study of the
relationship between social groups and the environment in which they interact
as natural resources for their survival. This relationship was always intertwined
by power determinations in the organization of forms of appropriation of natural
resources, deriving different types of territorial assets. These territorial
assets demonstrate a variety of actors, involved in a certain territory and materializing
different actions for the appropriation of space and use of the natural
resources. In the case of fishing this is not different, since we verified that
fishing practice is witnessed by a variety of actors, fishermen, fishing
community, fishing association, fishing zone and regulatory agencies. Each of
these actors relate in specific ways to the fishing spaces and material
specific actions to define the territory, adopting territorial assets and a
diversity of perceptions which sometimes conflict with each
other. This study is part of a research which, through direct field
research, aims at accomplishing an analysis of the way of life of the fishermen
of the Colony of Fishermen Z 62, headquartered in the municipal district of
Breves, state of Pará, and how they acknowledge their territory, in the way
they interact with other actors who use the same territory in other ways
unrelated to fishing.
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