This research aims to know the networks currently established by fish traders in natura in
municipal fairs of Palmas-TO, in order to identify the economic agents involved, the main
species tendered and investigate the conditions of direct marketing to the final consumer,
highlighting the hygiene and health aspects. Therefore, it started with the secondary survey
and field research, using structured interviews, direct observation script and photographic
record. This commercial activity in free markets involves different economic agents, both
upstream like the downstream. Upstream, suppliers agents associated with fishing (fishers of
Palmas, Porto Nacional, Caseara, Bananal Island, Tocantins, and Belém, Santarém, Tucuruí
and São Félix do Xingu, Pará), aquaculture (fish farmers of Lajeado, Porto Nacional and
Fátima in Tocantins), the fish slaughterhouse (Almas and Nazareth Brejinho in Tocantins) and
one retailer in Palmas-TO; and the fairground, in turn, supply, in addition to final consumers
in the markets, traders in Palmas and in cities of Pará. It is noteworthy that the marketing of
fish in natura in the fairs there are problems with respect to sanitary conditions, especially in
with regard to facilities, equipment, storage, handling and others. In short, these marketing
networks of in natura fish involving the fairs in Palmas feature local and regional level,
involving two states of the Federation (Tocantins and Pará) and have your settings changed by
the closure period of fishing for the spawning season (November to February) and for
informality of the business relationship.
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