Piscicultura, educação e sustentabilidade: os desafios e perspectivas da Piscicultura para a região do Lago da Usina Hidrelétrica de Tucuruí em Tucuruí - Pará

Abstract

The construction of hydroelectric power plants in the Amazon has been part of the country's energy development plan since the 1960s, causing a significant impact on the routine of the native population that resides on the banks of these rivers, mainly due to the large flooded area and the determinism in the behavior of Rio a Downstream from these developments, especially in the families of fishermen who are directly affected by the change of the fishing area and availability of commercial fish. Aquaculture has been presented as the main alternative to mitigate these impacts. In this sense, we sought to record the experience of fish farming in the Tucuruí HPP lake, through the report of an autonomous producer and the fishermen affected by the construction of the Tucuruí hydroelectric power plants, benefiting from the Ipirá project for fish farming in tanks networks, proposed by the company Eletrobrás and Eletronorte to mitigate the socio-environmental impacts of UHT, as well as to register the actions of IFPA Campus Tucuruí to strengthen this productive arrangement. The data presented show that fish farming in the HPP lake is environmentally viable, however the way this alternative was presented and executed in the Ipirá project has several technical, structural and social flaws. The Tucuruí Campus has developed actions that make it possible to remedy the technical failures observed in the project, but the social question still prevails, since the project foresees a drastic change in the cultural conditions of the fishermen, since they propose the change of extractivist habits for producers.