Abstract
Estratégias tradicionais de pesca são utilizadas por comunidades de pescadores em todo o mundo, dentre elas os “currais”, que são armadilhas fixas construídas na zona costeira. O objetivo do presente estudo foi caracterizar e descrever as formas de manejo destes “currais” pelos pescadores do litoral da Paraíba. Foram utilizadas entrevistas livres, “rapport”,“Snow ball” e formulário semiestruturado nas visitas mensais aos cinco “currais” entre os meses de novembro 2012 até março de 2013. Foi quantificada a produção dos currais e identificada as espécies mais capturadas. Os dados mostraram que estas armadilhas são constituídas por compartimentos e passam por fases em terra e mar até serem totalmente ativadas. O total da produção de peixes foi de 303 kg. As espécies predominantes foram: Mugil curema and Mugil liza, Trichiurus lepturus, Caranx hippos, Selene vomer, Selene setapinnis, Diapterus auratus e Diapterus rhombeus. Conclui-se que este tipo de pesca é utilizado há décadas no litoral da Paraíba, demonstrando existir manejo e técnicas próprias com relações de trabalhos inerentes a este tipo de armadilha.
Highlights
Over millions of years, the human diet was restricted to plants and land animals; due to climate changes, such as glaciations, populations migrated to coastal areas, limiting their eating habits as from the late Pleistocene (Marean et al, 2007)
Ribeiro (2003) concluded that the origin of the fish-weirs is not indigenous, but that, the strategy used was learned by them, when he compared similar traps described in the seventeenth century, which consisted in the use of stone, wood or branches erected at the mouth of rivers to take advantage of the tide flow, and catch the fish that got stuck in these traps, at low tide
We evidenced the fish-weirs as fishing traps used for decades along the north coast of Paraíba state, using ethnography to identify its structure, activation, operation, maintenance, and fish harvest processes
Summary
The human diet was restricted to plants and land animals; due to climate changes, such as glaciations, populations migrated to coastal areas, limiting their eating habits as from the late Pleistocene (Marean et al, 2007). This growing human interaction with the maritime space, over time, required acquisition of knowledge from communities that inhabited these regions and, through the acquired knowledge, their own cultural practices were developed, accumulated and perpe tuated for several millennia (Diegues, 2004). Maneschy (1993) reports that the Indians greatly influenced the knowledge and traditional practices of techniques to capture fish, over time after the colonization by Europeans
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