Estudo da sustentabilidade piscicultura no município de coremas PB.

Abstract

- Fish farming is an activity developed in the world for a long time in South America, the first country to introduce fish farming was Argentina, importing in 1870, the first common carp breeding (Cyprinus carpio) and Mirror Carp (Cyprinus Carpic). It was later introduced in the region of Bariloche, the rainbow trout (Salmo irideus). The objective of this work was to study the sustainability of fish farming in the municipality of Coremas PB. The methodology used was by applying semi-structured questionnaires directly with fish farmers, were applied 30 questionnaires. To calculate the sustainability of the Economic Social activity indices were calculated. Technological and Environmental Sustainability that were composing the index of activity. The social rate was 0.6387, the economic rate was 0.7480, the technological index of 0.5623, the environmental index was 0.4733 and finally the sustainability index was 0.6053. The index that most contributed to compose sustainability was economic; however, all indices are within the average level of sustainability. This means that the piscicola activity developed in the city of Coremas PB, needs changes to improve all indices presented in the survey in order to achieve sustainability as desired by practicing this activity.