Caracterização da Aquicultura na Mesorregião Metropolitana de Belém, Amazônia Oriental (Pará, Brasil).

Abstract

Aquaculture in the Amazon Region presents great challenges, whether logistic, technical or infrastructural, but many actions can be taken to solve these difficulties and thus promote the development of this activity, leveraging the environmental, economic and social development of the people involved in it . For the experimentation, interviews with forms application were carried out, whose data were statistically analyzed through four main tests: χ², Student 's T, G and discriminant analysis. In the metropolitan mesoregion of Belém - PA were identified 90 producers that have some aquaculture activity, being developed mainly in the municipality of Castanhal with extensive characteristics whose main species is the tilápia, using commercial ration, having aquicultores with the most varied levels of education, hand of family farm, with the purpose of commercializing the production, low incidence of predatory species, having own resources to finance the activity and occupying average water area of 1.08 ha. The factors that most impacted the production of fish were the type of labor used, the purpose of the production, the type of crop, the predatory species, the water area and the average production. Over 70% of respondents were correctly classified as aquaculture workers belonging to their classes. There are large gaps to be filled by the federal, state and municipal public authorities and organized civil society, such as cooperatives and companies for the production of inputs.