Entre os saberes tradicional e institucional: o Lago do Piranha e o manejo de pesca

Abstract

Fishing is the main activity of sustenance and food security for the riverside population of the State of Amazonas. Fish represents not only the population's dietary base or the main source of protein, but also the diversity of species, the abundance and especially the family activity that is inherited from parents to children as a teaching for maintaining subsistence, obtaining financial, cultural, behavioral, environmental and social. Traditional knowledge and formal education are inseparable, since formal education and the practice of natural resource management are connected to local productive arrangements, through scientific validation from the empirical domain, concepts related to their daily survival, knowledge of the fauna and flora, territoriality, experience and the practices of their daily lives, which must be taken into consideration in the school space. Faced with this reality, it is up to the formal school in the field to consider and use this knowledge more and more and teach in this logic of dialogue and respect for the existing knowledge and spaces where it is inserted. The presented study evidences the knowledge and the harmonious experience in an exuberant environment in the Lake of Piranha and aims to analyze the traditional knowledge in relation to the formal knowledge of the students and fishermen emphasizing them as the protagonists of their stories to be conveyed through the oral narrative and ethnographic. Fishermen and students, parents and children contributed to the study through the knowledge and praxis exercised in the activity of management of sustainable management and the dynamics of use and preservation of fishing resources. Community fisheries management is fostered and worked on by fishermen, with the expectation of improving their income and solving some of the difficulties in fishing, while students demonstrate their perceptions and perspective of pro-management actions through formal education. Education provides us with the best fruits that a society can plant, care for, thus allowing the harvest for other generations