ANA RI TA F RAGA

anaritafraga@gmail.com
Investigação Social Aplicada, Educação e Formação Applied Social Science, Education & Training

Consultadoria para Desenvolvimento Local Sustentável Consulting for Coastal Sustainable Local Development

dos Espaços Costeiros e em Empreendorismo Social Azul and Social Blue Entrepreneurship
Especialização: Pesca e Cidadania Marítima Area of expertise: Fisheries & Ocean Citizenship

FISHERIES’ SOCIAL DATA COLLECTION RESEARCH

Needs and opportunities for local monitoring strategies in small-scale fisheries:
Azores Applied Social Sciences research agenda (Ana Fraga’s contributions)

Research 'agenda'

Theoretical (field grounded) research issues:

• Fisheries as a sociological object.

• Illegal fishing as a social problem.
• Fisheries governance system and management dynamic.
• Local Fisheries 'profiles' (technical and socio-economic aspects).
• Socio ecosystemic transformative approach to Fisheries (opportunities for
social sciences intervention, ethical responsibilities of field, participated
research projects).

Empirical field research focus:

• Sociodemographic assessments in IEAs.

• Framework of Indicators for Sustainable Coastal Management & Responsible
Fishing Operations.
• Mapping Compliance & Context's real 'portrait' of assumptions or
motivations behind (il)legal practices.

Research 'in action'

• Sociodemographic assessment of Azorean Fishers (Active Population in

Fisheries- Study for the National Annual Statistics: 2018 done, 2019 in
progress)- Researcher: Ana Fraga / Promoter: Azores Regional Government,
Fisheries Regional Direction;
• Electronic Monitoring Programs to support Fisheries Social and Ecological
Data Collection Programs, Azores Pilot-Study- Researcher: Ana Fraga,
CICS.Nova & Fisheries Regional Direction / Promoter: Azores Regional
Government, Fisheries Regional Direction & OLSPS;
• Framework of Indicators for Sustainable Coastal Management & Responsible
Fishing Operations- Researcher: Ana Fraga, CICS.Nova;

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Ana Fraga, Azores’ Research Agenda, 01.06.2019