Caracterização do mercado varejista de peixe ornamental na Região Metropolitana de Belém, Pará.

Abstract

The ornamental fish market is certainly profitable as it moves millions of dollars every year. The present work aims to spatialize the specialized ornamental fish stores and characterize the ornamental fish retail market in the Belém metropolitan region, verifying their links in the aquarium market chain, showing the main species that are commercialized in the Belém metropolitan region. It also shows how sanitary and food management is done by the retailers of the Belém metropolitan area. The study area covered the 7 municipalities that make up the metropolitan area, Belém, Ananindeua, Marituba, Benevides, Santa Barbara, Santa Isabel and Castanhal. , the method used to obtain the data was the application of structured questionnaires in specialized aquarium stores in the metropolitan region of Belém. The stores are concentrated in the city of Belém, the ornamental fish market has a great variety of species, with predominance of exotic species. The chain links have middlemen, which raises the final price of the product to the consumer. The activity is basically dominated by males and the management, both sanitary and food are performed in a simple way. Most stores are registered with the environmental agency responsible for overseeing and generating laws for the ornamental fish industry. This study is a valuable contribution to the knowledge of the ornamental fish retail market in Belém and its metropolitan region, allowing us to know a little more about this profitable activity as well as to understand the operation of specialized aquarium stores.