In the last decades, public investments, technological advances and population growth have
led to the breaking of barriers that historically limited the use of Amazonian coastal marine
ecosystems, causing threats to the traditional fishermen´s way of life and the conservation of
these important ecosystems. Therefore, the government has sought to reconcile the multiple
interests on the Amazon coast, as well as to meet the territorial claims of these traditional
populations, through the creation of conservation units, resulting in the largest continuous
protected mangrove forest in the world. However, the lack of a proper perception of the
multiple territories that make up these traditional fishermen’s way of life, has contributed for
their conquests to be rights and not in fact. Thus, this research aims, through the case study
of the coast of Pará and an approach based on historical and theoretical context, to
contribute to a better perception of these multiple territories of traditional fishermen and to overcome the productive x unproductive dichotomy that has guided fisheries management in
the Amazon.
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