Biorregional mapping in fishing communities

territorial belonging on the coast of Northeast Brazil in the face of environmental impacts

Abstract

The article presents the production of bioregional maps lived and managed in the territory of fishing communities, based on their involvement, knowledge and practices, referring to the impacts of the oil spill in 09 locations on the coast of NE Brazil. Several fishing communities were affected by the crime of the oil spill that occurred in 2019. The territorial management is constituted, in the event in question, from actions aimed at solving problems arising from impacts on the territory that are described and problematized by the fishing communities themselves that had the prolonged suffering over time and space due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The descriptions and problematizations were constituted and systematized from the project "Manchas do Sofrimento" originated from the INCT Amb Tropic II, GT 4.0 Oil Spills. Decolonial and Popular Education references allowed the fabric of this article, whose methodology was given in a qualitative approach, from the collaborative construction of maps by fishermen and a team of researchers and grantees from the Federal University of Bahia. The technique of bioregional mapping, based on citizen science, structures the methodological dimension. As a result, we bring a methodology constituted in an integrative way, in which multiple knowledge made possible the elaboration of maps, which demonstrated the feeling of belonging of fishermen and fisherwomen and defense of their territoriality.