Contribuições para o aprimoramento de políticas públicas na cadeia produtiva da lagosta

Abstract

The role of public policies application for the development of lobster fishing is from the Federal Brazilian Government, aiming to reconcile various interests in the productive chain of the lobster fisheries. This D.Sc. thesis presents a study about lobster fishing in the State of Ceará, Northeast region of Brazil, a traditional activity since the mid of the 1950 ́s, and represents an important fishing product of Brazil's exportation, driven by the lack of information on research, statistics, monitoring and evaluation. The history of the fishing in Ceará has shown minimal changes in the fleet, the types of vessels, the equipment and fishing methods, as well as in the species caught. There was a growing contingent of lobster fishermen and unemployment insurance as a social benefit. Some gaps were identified from design to application of the legislation involving lobster fisheries, since the identification of breeding areas protected, use the size of the meshes to the change on coefficient of the meshes. To optimize the process of commercialization and further analysis of Fisheries Biology, an international standardization was proposed for the classification of the entire lobster growth- related task to consistent weights and types. The various systems of existing databases and employed by various organs in the country were discussed. However, has not been verified the necessary integration to streamline monitoring and evaluation procedures, greatly hindering the process of management of public policies. The databases of fishing vessels present in the most diverse organs - Sisemb/DPC, MPA, SINE, MTE - should become single and with biometric reading by the boat owners, avoiding waste of time for both users, as for civil servants who feed and update information annually. In addition, recommendations or suggestions were presented to continuation and deepening of themes for the devel opment of future studies employed in productive chain management of lobster, and also to identify gaps and obstacles that hinder the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development policy of lobster fishing by public agencies. The 21 undergraduate programs in Fishing Engineering existing in Brazil in 2013 and The Fishing Technology Colleges could contribute with their infrastructure, student body and teaching staff needed to achieve some goals of the MPA, as statistics and fishing extensions.