International Journal of Advanced Engineering Research and Science (IJAERS) Peer-Reviewed Journal ISSN: 2349-6495(P) | 2456-1908(O) Vol-9, Issue-3; Mar, 2022 Journal Home Page Available: https://ijaers.com/ Article DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22161/ijaers.93.38 www.ijaers.com Page | 326 Environmental Racism has Colour: A Look at the Fishing Territory Fátima Cristina Cunha Maia Silva 1 , Júlia Figueredo Benzaquen 2 , Luciano Pires Andrade 3 , Horasa Maria Lima da Silva Andrade 4 1 Doctoral student, Postgraduate Program in Agroecology and Territorial Development, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) Campus Recife - PE, Brazil. 2,3,4 Teacher, Departament of the Program in Agroecology and Territorial Development, Rural Federal University of Pernambuco (UFRPE)Campus Recife - PE, Brazil. Received: 19 Jan 2022, Received in revised form: 15 Mar 2022, Accepted: 22 Mar 2022, Available online: 31 Mar 2022 ©2022 The Author(s). Published by AI Publication. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Keywords — Agroecology, artisanal fisheries, vulnerability. Abstract — Artisanal fishing, considered a millenary activity, suffers with deep transformations in the face of coastal developments. Factors that constitute the environmental vulnerability of artisanal fishermen from the "economic development". This being said, this study aims to understand environmental racism in fishing territory, especially the Ilha de Maré, located in Salvador - BA/BR. The resistance and the defense of a Healthy and Sustainable Territory (TSS) for the preservation of its natural resources were important elements brought about in this process. The method was based on action research and popular education.The methodological path was based on meetings between researchers from the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation(Fiocruz) and the community, in order to capture the perception of the residents of the Island about health,environment and work, given the impact of the Industrial Complex and the Port of Aratu. As a result, it was observed that environmental racism affects not only the natural environment, but also the living, health and working conditions of the fishing population. Thus, the need for organization and mobilizationof the people involved in the search for social rights, improvement of health and work conditions, preservation, demarcation of fishing territories and the fight against environmental racism. I. INTRODUCTION Brazil has a diversity of coastal and continental ecosystems. In the state of Bahia/Brazil, in particular, 2012 data from the Bahia Federal Superintendence of Fisheries and Aquaculture indicate that there are about 130,000 artisanal fishermen registered in the General Register of Fishing Activity (RGAP),thus highlighting the great potential for the fishing production modality. It is worth noting that artisanal fishing is a productive activity in which traditional knowledge is generational, i.e., transmitted from father/mother to child through orality, which materialises in the exchanges experienced from daily practices. It is developed with the use of technologies from the local culture, and the work regime is informal and results in low profits. This knowledge "guides and sustains the functioning of community management and is at the basis of decisions and fishing strategies of artisanal fishermen" (Antonio Carlos Sant'Ana Diegues, 2004, p. 195). It is, therefore, an activity that adds value to the management of fishery resources, in addition to observation and preservation of nature,fundamental to such activity. The observation of nature becomes important for fishing, where the wind, the tides, the state of the mangroves and the crowns will guide the artisanal fisherman for the extraction of the fish/shellfish. Itis common to hear the