Co-gestão da pesca marinha no Parque Natural do Sudoeste Alentejano e Costa Vicentina: estudo da sua implementação no concelho de Odemira

• Author(s): Penteado, Nélia Ascensão Duarte
• Date: 2015
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/11167
• Origin: Repositório da UTL
• Subject(s): co-management; Natural park; fisheries; marine protected areas; fisheries management
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Advisor(s): Castro, João; Cruz, Teresa
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

Description

Mestrado em Gestão e Conservação de Recursos Naturais - Instituto Superior de Agronomia / Universidade de Évora

The living marine resources, although renewable, are not infinite and need proper management to continue being exploited sustainably. The fisheries co-management is tool of fisheries management, through power, rights and responsibilities shared between the state and local users. Fishing in PNSACV do not have such national representativess having it locally, with 11 small fishing ports, where small scale comercial fishing had the highest relevance. The study sample was based on surveys to obtain the opinion of professional fishermen in the marine area near the municipality of Odemira about the implementation of co-management system. 62 surveys were conducted in four fishing ports of the county of Odemira and the fishing port of Sines. The fishermen had attributed high importance to fisheries in the county (economic, employment and traditional). Half of the fishermen are in fishing associations, 54% of respondents agree with the implementation of co-management, mainly due to the possibility of decentralized management, closer to the population and introduction of traditional knowledge in management. To implement this system is essential the involvement of users and a model adapted to local conditions, and more research is needed