On Brazilian fishing bibliography (1930 to 1980): themes, authors and their worries

Abstract

This article will mainly focus on the growth of Brazilian bibliographic production in the 20th century, the first issues, the most relevant authors and their concerns about the world of artisanal fisheries. We start from the assumption that the sharpening of contradictions in the fishing world produced a form of awareness that resulted in scientific and critical work on artisanal fishermen. In that same context, the growth of institutions and research centers in the late 20th century is noteworthy. We carried out a historical literature research on the annals and records of institutes and universities, and on occasional productions of the period. We could observe that during the first half of the century many of the analyses dealt with fishermen secondarily, that is, the concern lied on vulnerable people and, in that context, the fishermen were approached.