Sustentabilidade do Programa de Peixamento do Governo do estado do Ceará em coleções de águas públicas.

Abstract

The study evaluated the sustainability of the Fishing Program of the Government of the State of Ceará in public water collections in the city of Canindé-CE. For this study, both a quantitative research and a survey 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 half-structuralized questionnaires to the seventy-two beneficiary families from the city mentioned above and the technicians involved in the program as well. It was 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 city of Canindé the Fishing Program is directed to a target-public having the following features: low degree of education or illiterate, an average age of 49 years old, strong tradition in their occupations and having fishing as a complementary activity. The values calculated for the social, environmental, economical and institutional indexes, respectively, had been: 0,562, 0,563, 0,343, and 0,652. So that, it was determined that the Program, considering 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 to good or excellent.