A educação ambiental contribuindo para o desenvolvimento da atividade da pesca sustentável

Abstract

This monograph had the objective of surveying some data about the fishing, and the professional fishermen who exercise their activities in a handicraft manner, on Jacuí River, at Rio Pardo city, affiliated to the Colônia de Pescadores Z 13 at Cachoeira do Sul city, as well as to contribute for the development of the sustainable fishing activity, though the non-formal environmental education method, aiming to awake the need for acting responsibly, on the fishermen, in order to the sense of value, the actions, attitudes and behaviors produce new responsible and respectful deportments and behaviors, fundamental for preserving and protecting the environment as a way to grant them a higher living standard. The results showed the low scholastic rate, the low affording capacity, the payment delay over the prohibition time and the instituion of the regulation on fishing suspension during the “piracema” period, this period being considered inapproprieate, according to the fishermen, because some species, at the time the regulation ruled, had already begun breeding. We concluded that the fishermen are performing their duties in an individual, disorganized and manner the practicing fishing without orientation or assistance from the institutions .