Entre a tradição e a readequação produtiva: conflito socioambiental na Bacia do Rio Itabapoana e os impactos na pesca artesanal

Abstract

The artisanal fishery commited in the Itabapoana River Bay is being impacted by the arrival of hydroelectric power stations (PCH’s) since 2007. As a productive activity, the fishery goes through a transition process triggered by the socio-environmental conflict that hits the region and the local communities. The environmental impact was established as social and economic impacts, interfering in the local ways of life, leading to political and legal disputes that came to generate the productive readjustment phenomenon to the Artisanal Fishery Colony of Limeira. This is a central theme in the present research for representing a “common barrier” to the making of the distinct interests among the actors involved in the conflict set up, and in the productive readjustment of the territory. The process interfered in the popular relations around the river and the environment, overlapping means of natural resources appropriation. The relation established nowadays among the actors has been organized long ago, since the fishing community’s formation and their struggle for land permanence and space in the agrarian reform settlement, to the current scene in the encouter with a multinational company, amidst consecutive territorialisation processes. This study approches the fishermen relations with the territory, the conditions that led to the environmental conflict under a political ecology perspective, and the conflict implications in the traditional productive practices and its social disclosures