Aspectos da caça e comércio de jacaré (Crocodylia: Alligatoride) no rio Copeá, no Município de Maraã (Am)

Abstract

Hunting of caimans occur over all amazon basin but are a few studies about this theme. This research was conducted in order to characterize aspects of hunting and trade of alligator meat in Copeá river, taking as a production base, two communities located the banks of this river. The information in this article was obtained through interviews and monitoring landing in the port community. The measures of body size were obtained, weight, species, sex, origin, methods and effort hunting, selling price and destination of the meat. In 12 hunting events, representing 8 days of effort, 35 M.niger and six C.crocodilus was captured. Males was the most hunted than the females. Canoe with “rabeta” was the most utilized to go hunting and harpoon was the unique method utilized to hunting caimans. The average yield per hunter/night was 118 kg of salted/dry meat which yields R$ 294.50. The meat is sold salted/dried, for $ 2.50 a pound and is for the market of Para state.