Oscilaciones en la temperatura de prácticas pesquero-artesanales: la expansión de la economía de capitales en las Caletas de Islas Huichas, Puerto Cisnes y Puerto Melinka, Región de Aysén; Chile

Abstract

In this work we see transformations of small-scale fishery traditional economy system as a kind of temperature indicator of the capital economy expansion. Thus, the major the change the greater the loss of traditional features, which is equivalent to a cooling of coastal communities because of the penetration of new technologies that are imposed without considering local conditions. This expansion condition practices in different degrees and forms, even in distant places as the southern-austral region of Chile. Nevertheless, it is important to underline that traditional small scale fisheries of Aysen are not only ‘cooling’ because of its internal dynamic, but also, and above all, for being comprised within a bigger economic and political context, with interventions and agency from different actors guided by divergent interests. Thereby, this scenario constitutes a territorial laboratory to understand the complex game of co-existing , competence between actors, practices and logics for natural and hydrobiological resources. We reviewed the intersection between global processes in small-scale fisheries settlements or coves in southern Chile, with particular interest in depicting ethnographically and ethnologically Islas Huichas, Puerto Cisnes and Puerto Melinka. In order to recognize both common and different elements and characteristics between these settlements, the ways of organizing production activities related to the sea and the involved management processes, three questions are answered: how small-scale fisheries are affected by globalization and technologization processes? What is the role of local knowledge and ecological factors in fishing activities? What role does the State have in these processes?