Profile and behavior of the consumers of soft crab caught with cages at Brazil coast

Adilson Anacleto,Gláucia Marconato,José Victor Andreatta,Patricia Roberta Bonoli,Gabriel Alcântara Da Silva

doi:10.3895/rbpd.v8n1.9927

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Abstract

The coast of Brazil has showed in recent decades a decline in fishing activity of fish and shrimp, and along the time, the fishermen sought some other ways to get sustenance to their families. Among the new activities, appeared the fishing for soft crab with cages, currently practiced by more than 350 families that extract the meat from the soft crab in the Brazilian coast. Despite the relevance there was found no studies on this subject that discloses data on consumer preferences of this product, so in this regard, was held between September and November 2018 an exploratory-descriptive study with 177 consumers. The study revealed that the fried soft crab shell is the main delicacy preferred by the consumer, who consumes an average of 2.69 times a year. Consumption does not change in relation to age, gender and marital status, however, was noted an statistical differences by Spearman correlation coefficient, as it raises the level of education (r = 0,321;p <0.001), and income (r = 0,590; p < 0,001), consumption rises.

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Fishing is one of the most important activities, not just to generate income, and as a food source of countless families and even entire communities. (HAZIN, 2010; NOMURA, 2010)
Brazil produces around 1.265 million tons of fish per year (CASTELLO, 2010; HAZIN, 2010), in this amount, approximately 500 thousand tons were captured by more than 600 thousand Brazilian fishermen classified as craft fishermen (CAPELLESSO; CAZELLA, 2013)
The data analysis sought identify the correlation between the consumption variable of soft crab meat caught with cages and the education, living arrangements, income, age and marital status variables, which were considered as explanatory factors (MALHOTRA, 2010; ANACLETO et al, 2014)

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Fishing is one of the most important activities, not just to generate income, and as a food source of countless families and even entire communities. (HAZIN, 2010; NOMURA, 2010). Fishing is a socio-economic relevance activity to several countries, and currently the largest fish producer in the world is China, which has a production of about 48 million tons, which represents almost a third of the total of 143 million tons of the world market (NOMURA, 2010). The industry in Brazil, even after the post-colonial period, has traditionally been relegated to the background in the modernization process, which occurred in the world in the second half of the twentieth century. This condition reflected in the existence of many public policy point credits, short lived, benefiting a small number of artisanal fishermen and in larger quantity, vessel owners and fishermen with production industry bias (CAPELLESSO; CAZELLA, 2013). Brazil produces around 1.265 million tons of fish per year (CASTELLO, 2010; HAZIN, 2010), in this amount, approximately 500 thousand tons were captured by more than 600 thousand Brazilian fishermen classified as craft fishermen (CAPELLESSO; CAZELLA, 2013)

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