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Table 2.

Circular ecosystem management framework applied to extractive fishing in Amazonas

Building a circular value proposition
– Availability of fish waste, including skins, carcasses, viscera, hides and scales. – Production of biofuels, animal feed, protein hydrolysates, pharmaceuticals, bags and accessories from the waste – Product research and development with public and private organizations
Building circular governance	Encouraging circular interdependence	Promoting circular integration	Generating circular complementarity
– Isolated labor between fishermen and submission to the conditions established by intermediaries – Unequal distribution of value among the chain’s agents Greater concentration at the top, especially in the meat-packing plants	– A one-off initiative by the government, which organizes the “Peixe no Prato” (fish on the plate) traveling fair, providing trucks and ice – Precarious infrastructure at the Manaus Fishing Terminal, leading to loss of goods – Exclusion of fishermen and market traders from training programs organized by the industry to reuse waste	– High collection costs and ignorance of the potential for commercial relations between actors in nearby locations – A chain marked by bottlenecks in the extraction, storage and distribution of fish, creating difficulties in achieving the minimum quality standards required by processing plants	– Precarious infrastructure for storage, processing and sale, coupled with the fact that fishermen do not perceive the value of the waste generated, creates obstacles to large-scale trade in waste – Lack of relationships between fishermen and traders in the tannery and processing plant sector. In addition, hygiene and conservation issues increase the perishability of fish

Building a circular value proposition
– Availability of fish waste, including skins, carcasses, viscera, hides and scales.– Production of biofuels, animal feed, protein hydrolysates, pharmaceuticals, bags and accessories from the waste– Product research and development with public and private organizations
Building circular governance	Encouraging circular interdependence	Promoting circular integration	Generating circular complementarity
– Isolated labor between fishermen and submission to the conditions established by intermediaries– Unequal distribution of value among the chain’s agents Greater concentration at the top, especially in the meat-packing plants	– A one-off initiative by the government, which organizes the “Peixe no Prato” (fish on the plate) traveling fair, providing trucks and ice– Precarious infrastructure at the Manaus Fishing Terminal, leading to loss of goods– Exclusion of fishermen and market traders from training programs organized by the industry to reuse waste	– High collection costs and ignorance of the potential for commercial relations between actors in nearby locations– A chain marked by bottlenecks in the extraction, storage and distribution of fish, creating difficulties in achieving the minimum quality standards required by processing plants	– Precarious infrastructure for storage, processing and sale, coupled with the fact that fishermen do not perceive the value of the waste generated, creates obstacles to large-scale trade in waste– Lack of relationships between fishermen and traders in the tannery and processing plant sector. In addition, hygiene and conservation issues increase the perishability of fish

Source: Own authors, from research data, based on Gomes et al. (2023)