Traditional knowledge of fishermen on the sweet freshwater stingrays in the Amazon region
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https://doi.org/10.6008/CBPC2179-6858.2020.002.0015Keywords:
Ethnoictiology, Stingrays, Fresh Water, Fishermen, AmazonAbstract
Ethnoscience emerges as an important tool integrates of academic knowledge and fishermen knowledge. The objective of the present study is analysis of the socio-economic profile and traditional knowledge about freshwater stingrays from reports of fishermen in the municipality of Barcelos, Amazonas. A total of 54 fishermen were interviewed who were affected by accidents with stingrays. We observed the number of 89.0% was male, is demonstrates the maintenance of the fishing techniques being passed on by the families the children and young people. The majority of accidents occur with fishermen over 50 years old (62.2%). There is predominance of the use hand net which is a type of active fishing in which it does not cause any injury to the animals. According to the traditional knowledge the identification of species from a guide, showed that only 2.0% didn´t identified the five species present in the middle River Negro. Among the symptoms pointed out by the fishermen after the accidents, pain, edema and sometimes necrosis were mentioned. It will be possible to assist fresh fishermen on how accidents, localities and poisoning mechanisms have occurred, as well as how fishermen used them to minimize the effects of the injury. The information generated here can serve as a basis for the riverside to be injured by freshwater stingrays have a way to mitigate or even eliminate the pain caused by the venom present in the stingers of these animals so feared by the people bordering the Amazon.
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