The objective of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of management measures for fisheries
agreements in the Aritapera region, Santarém-PA (Pará / Brazil). It deals with fisheries agreements
as a participatory management tool, making an analysis in relation to their implementation. The
dynamics of fishing in these communities and their social actors are described in summary. These
agreements arose from the pressure exerted on the communal lakes of floodplain, from the decade
of the 70, where the riverside communities began to restrict the access to these environments. One
of the main legal instruments for fisheries control used as a participatory management tool, as well
as promising in increasing and maintaining fish stocks. It is necessary to evaluate this management
tool as a support to obtain results on the efficiency of these agreements. The agreements of the
Aritapera region in the first moment were regularized by means of ordinances and later recognized
by means of Normative Instruction of Ibama n ° 11, of October 14, 2004. In the second moment,
from the need of land regularization, INCRA in partnership with IPAM, created the Aritapera
Agro-Extractive Settlement Project (PAE), making a total of 14 communities that had their fishing
agreements introduced into the Plan of Use of the PAE by inserting them into a fishing chapter.
The communities selected for this research were: Ilha de São Miguel, Água Preta, Boca de Cima
and Cabeça D'ounca. The main source of income of these communities is fishing that occurs all
year long and agriculture during the drought in the Amazon, the main environments used for
fishing are community lakes, adapting their techniques and fishing gear according to rise and fall
of the waters, it is made use of the crockery every year. Among the communities studied, the oldest
fishing agreements are from the Ilha de São Miguel and Água Preta communities dating back to
the 1980s and 1990s, respectively, Boca de Cima and Cabeça D'ounca communities had no
formalized agreements and only came to have after the Utilization Plan (PU). Fisheries conflicts
were observed in all the communities studied, with the highest citation in the Água Preta
community. The greatest difficulty found in the implementation of the agreements is due to the
lack of respect for the rules of the current agreement and due to the low state performance in the
absence of inspections in these communities.
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