Transferência da tecnologia e capacitação de pescadores artesanais para a pesca oceânica de pequena escala: O Projeto Barco-escola e cooperativismo no Estado do Ceará

Abstract

Main worldwide fisheries are in decline due the enormous pressure on water supplies by fishing boats, which causes biological, social, and economic problems of difficult solution. In Ceará state, Brazil, lobster fisheries are on collapse, facing the biggest crisis of the history of this traditional resource from Northeast Brazil. The “School-Vessel” project described on this dissertation had as objective to contribute for the improvement of the quality of life of the fishermen and of the fisheries sustainability in Ceará state, through the artisan fishing qualification and technology transfer during the stop season of the lobster in the Northeast. Thirty fishermen were training in three municipal districts of Ceará state, Brazil, in order to give them conditions of increasing their income through the capture of fishing products of great market value. Methodological procedures were specified in order to allow the evaluation the study impacts. Discussion on the data regarding the fishermen training analyses their own vision. Activities accomplished both on inland and experimental fisheries on the sea are detailed. Fishermen vision on the project gives an idea of how they like it and the way they noticed in which ways the new technology can help them to get new salaries and improve their social status. The project taught fishermen to fish in different ways. This dissertation also showed that scientific knowledge can be assimilated by fishermen since it was well taught. In this direction, the project developed pedagogical ways that could be used in new experiences. The fishermen trained during the project if had become teachers to its colleagues of profession. It was, therefore, demonstrated concrete viability of the project as element of sustainable development of artisan fisheries in Ceará state