Índice de sustentabilidade do programa de peixamento no município de Canindé-CE

Abstract

The study evaluates the sustainability of the Fishing Program of the Government of the State of Ceará in public water collections in the municipality of Canindé-CE. For this, a quantitative research and a data collection were carried through. In the quantitative approach statistical instruments were used, both in the gathering and in the treatment of the data. The survey was accomplished with the application of questionnaires to the 72 beneficiary families and the technicians involved in the program. It used descriptive statistics to trace the profile of the beneficiaries and four main dimensions had been considered (social, environmental, economical and institutional) in order to calculate the indexes of sustainability and the determination of the sustainability degree. It was observed that in the municipality of Canindé, the Fishing Program is directed to a public target-which has a low level of education or no education at all, an average age of 49 years old and strong tradition in their agricultural occupations. The calculated values for the social, environmental, economical and institutional indexes, respectively, were 0,562, 0,563, 0,343, and 0,652. Thus, it was determined that the program, within the predetermined classification, presents a medium level of sustainability meaning that it still has conditions to be improved in order to increase its Index of Sustainability for good or excellent.