Use and ocupation in a fishery community in the margin of Caeté river estuary (PA, Brazil)

Abstract

This work was carried out in Bacuriteua, situated in the northeast “paraense” coastal zone in the
margin of the Caeté river estuary. To characterize the type of uses and occupation in the studied area it
was necessary to define: (i) users´s profile, (ii) type of uses of the natural resources, (iii) type of
services and infrastructures, and (iv) type of local buildings, to subsidy future and necessary plans of
coastal management in the bragantinian region. The work was carried out through direct observation,
tasks and questionnaires applied to the local inhabitants. The majority of the interviewed work with
fishery resources and did not present complete elementary school. The pressures on the natural resources
use among some local agents associated to immigration rates, failure of basic hydric canalization,
urban daily cleanness and public illumination, absence of potable water net, amongst others were the
main factors responsible for some social and environmental problems e.g. over exploration of the
biologic resources, urban growth, decrease of public benefit, illness, amongst others. According to the
actual socioeconomic status in the study area it is necessary the implementation of measures of coastal
management to improve the environmental status and the life quality of the local inhabitant.