Dias, Ana Carolina Esteves (2020) Marine protected areas and Blue Justice: the case of Tarituba, Paraty, Brazil. p. 3.
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Tarituba is a coastal community located in Paraty, southeastern Brazil. The community is home to Caiçara fishers of mixed heritage descendants of Portuguese, Africans, and Brazilian indigenous people. They have traditionally depended on natural resources for livelihoods, combining tourism, small-scale fishing and agriculture and, in the past, hunting (Diegues 2000). Tarituba has approx. 450 residents of which 65 are small-scale fishers, of which 25 rely on fisheries for both local food security and income, and 40 for family consumption (Dias & Seixas 2019). The main fishing grounds of Tatiruba fishers were incorporated into one of the most restrictive protected area categories in Brazilian law, the Tamoios Ecological Station, created by a Federal Decree in 1990 but only implemented in 2006. This category of protected area only allows for scientific research and environmental education (Government of Brazil 2000). Tarituba's fishers argue that Tamoios MPA is imposing unfair restrictions that affect fishing livelihoods (Seixas et al. 2017). Fishers are not allowed to perform fisheries within the Tamoios MPA nor cross the area to access other grounds. The processes of creation and implementation of Tamoios MPA were top-down with no or minimal consultation of local communities (Lopes et al. 2013). Thus, even though Caiçara have traditional rights to use local resources to sustain livelihoods under the National Traditional peoples’ legislation (Federal Decree 6,040/2007), their rights are being withdrawn.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Marine Protected Areas, Tarituba, Paraty, Brazil, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Grounds, Livelihoods, Fishing Communities, Legislation, Local Communities, Conservation, Natural Resources |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Kokila ICSF Krish |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Mar 2025 08:00 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2025 08:00 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/21508 |
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