A maricultura no desenvolvimento local: desafios e oportunidades para a comunidade pesqueira da palateia no município de Barra de São Miguel - Alagoas

Abstract

The issue of sustainability is new area of discussion, however, has been performing vital research and studies in nature socioeconomic, cultural and environmental. Studies on sustainable development are revealing possibilities for social inclusion based on the relationship between nature, environment and individual in a systemic perspective. This paper examines the challenges and opportunities of the community of palatability, a district of Barra de Sao Miguel, State of Alagoas, from the implementation of Sustainable Mariculture Project - focusing on the cultivation of oysters - fostered by the Office of Support to Micro and Small Business - SEBRAE. The methodology consisted of primary sources to base or root of the work and secondary sources (semi-structured interviews and questionnaires) that allowed understanding of the context of local development with a focus on sustainable development through mariculture, specifically the cultivation of oysters. It was found in the social sphere, that the insertion of a fisherman in mariculture development is a task that requires new learning in social relations in what kind of production, in order to perceive the environment as a survival and changing paradigms acquired over time. The study shows that sustainable mariculture occurs endogenously leaving the potential of their own community to promote the collective benefit and local development. . It was found that the problems stemming from social exclusion can be reversed when the community participates in the planning of continuous occupation of the area marked out the dimensions of sustainability: socioeconomic, environmental and cultural. This design leads to a "new" economic reality of the community to believe that the Sustainable Mariculture can reduce the fishing effort on the natural beds of oysters, generating employment and income, thus contributing to local sustainable development.The results show that the Sustainable Mariculture Project hás brought significant changes in the social, economic and environmental. It is noteworthy that environmental sustainability it is necessary for more effective social actors towards the community itself. On the other hand, the fishermen are receptive to new changes and see how the environment and natural resources are important for sustainable development of the new activity.