Os circuitos da economia urbana na metrópole fluminense: uma análise sobre os mercados de pescado no município de Niterói (RJ)

Abstract

The production and circulation of fish in Niterói city come from long time and updates at the present. In the current period, such activity has become a striking feature in the municipality which has seven fishing piers, three for the craft and four industrial vessels, leading Niterói to an important spot over fish supply in the metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro city. However, urban expansion in the city has made the fishing markets differed in its form and content, forming extremely outgoing circuits and unified by the market and geared circuits for wholesaler-retailer supply location. This current study aims to understand the comercial movement of fish in the state metropolis. Thus, we will seek to analyze the elements that compose the different wholesale markets and fish retailers into Niterói city, metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro. For that, we turn to the concepts of territory used and the two circuits from urban economy (SANTOS, 1979, 2006), the critical dystopia of the self-regulated market (POLANYI, 2000) and the socially necessary concept of market (RIBEIRO, 2013).