over the years, The space, the men, the memory, all changed - Through the utilization of ethnographic techniques of the participative observation, it was sought to apprehend the real meaning of the mangrove to the fishermen, their offspring and the people unrelated to fishery. in our presentation, the beaches in the south zone correspond to the pink area on the map (ap2), the beaches in the west zone correspond to the purple area on the map (ap5), the beaches in the south-west zone correspond to the green area in the map (ap4), the beaches in the  north zone and governador island correspond to the light pink area on the map (ap3), and the beaches in paquetá island correspond to the blue areas on the map (ap1).