Socioeconomic and productive marine and estuarine fishery activity potential index

Considering the need for increased productivity, consequently providing a safe source of quality food and economic sustenance numerous families, fishing in State Rio de Janeiro is configured an important way, with primarily artisanal professional nature small bearing. In addition to fundamental aspect human subsistence, activity, generating several other businesses income sectors, such as transport, storage, processing sale products, construction repair vessels, artifacts utensils, among others. Thus, study potentialities vulnerabilities involving strengths weaknesses coastal region will assist actions favor broad development activity municipalities. For this, analytic hierarchy process was used, multicriteria analysis method, construct hierarchies these municipalities terms potential development, thus environment performed using matrix analyze scenarios. The results point out that due importance accorded by interviewees sub-index, municipality Angra dos Reis stood order priority defining highest socioeconomic productive potentiality index presenting quantitative data related sub-indices greater than However, when each subscript carried separately, has lowest classification vulnerability environmental social issues.