This text is about a system known as aviamento, sort of a loan, but with some peculiar features, related to the fishing field on the seashore of Pará State. Its is based on a sociological and anthropological literature and has its focus on the social relations on which the commercial net, among producers and intermediaries, is based. It also goes over some specific aspects of the aviamento process on fishing and its implications as to the permanence and change in the exchange relationship, having in mind, the regional transformations, which were strongly influenced by artisan fishing productive and commercial system.
Artisan fishing; Aviamento; Commercialization; Intermediaries