Pesca artesanal e projetos de desenvolvimento em Bitupitá, Ceará: os direitos das populações costeiras frente aos interesses empresariais e estatais

Abstract

The article presents the diff erent interests involved in the process of expanding tourism-related activities as well as development projects in the far-western coast of the coast of Ceará. Bitupitá holds one of the largest fi shing villages in the region, where the practice of the corral fi shing is still current. Using the ethnographic data collected there, the article discusses the legislation that establishes the rights of the communities and traditional peoples, placing fi shermen in that location before set out rights and state and business interests. The current context of expanding tourism-related activities, overfi shing and the implementation of renewable energy plants in the region are taken into account in the discussion. The changes experienced by these populations are addressed in the light of the results presented by now classic ethnographies carried out under Brazilian anthropology on the subject.