Tens es entre pesca, turismo e explora o de gás reconfigurando ruralidade na ilha de Boipeba – BA

As we realize that development is a historical process in constant movement that generates advances and setbacks to overcome social inequalities - currently known as asymmetries - this article examines the social daily dynamics on the island of Boipeba, city of Cairu, Bahia, and member of APA Tinharé - Boipeba, which is impacted by environmental issues and developing tourism in Costa do Dendê. In that process the appearance of gas exploration in January 2007 is periodized, when the activities of gas production began in the Manati Field BCAM-40, located in the Camamu-Almada Basin, which comes with specific environmental regulations. It is questioned whether the compliance with environmental regulations has interfered in the life of the population of the island, giving importance to fishing as an economic activity that structures the site in its rural way of life in relation to tourism and gas production as exogenous induction. The research was based on documental and field data (2009 and 2010), and its results show that tourist activities and gas exploration constitute a (dis) organizational phenomenon of the rural fishing that seems to have been strained with the mismanagement of environmental agents since the studies of environmental impact, through the environmental impact report and coming up with the increase of asymmetry compensation for environmental intervention.