A pesca artesanal e a política pública: a trajetória de um pescador artesanal na busca pelo crédito do PRONAF

Abstract

The present study aims to promote the debate around a public policy called Program for Strengthening Family’s Agriculture (PRONAF), having as its focus the artisanal fishermen’s access to this policy. We aim to discuss the relationship between public policy and the artisanal fisheries, identifying its main limits and potentialities. The choice of PRONAF as object of analysis is justified by the fact it has been setup as one of the main sources of financial credit available to artisanal fisherman, featuring an important life-changing alternative for millions of workers connected to this activity. On the other hand, the choice of artisanal fisheries as an object of research is related to this sector’s social insecurity such as the fishermen difficult working and living conditions. In this way, we aim at understanding this relation more deeply, especially to comprehend fishermen everyday routine, considering that this form of work constantly adapts to changes in the environment which it is immersed, bringing to the debate a variety of issues surrounding the production and planning of the geographical space. In this sense, central question of this work is the analysis of the relationship between the State and the artisanal fisheries. Through the method of ethnographic research, we followed the paths that the fishermen must go through to get the PRONAF’s financial resources, finding out the complexity present within this process.