摘要：This paper aims to analyze the change in the livelihoods of fishermen affected by the construction of the Funil Hydroelectric Power Plant, which directly affected Ponte do Funil and Pedra Negra and Macaia communities, located in the Campo das Vertentes region of the state of Minas Gerais. Based on the analysis of the documents related to the environmental licensing process of the enterprise, interviews and fieldwork, we aimed to analyze the resources and life strategies triggered by these fishermen before and after the construction of the power plant, seeking to understand the transformation of these fishermen identity from the substitution of artisanal fishing activities for fish-farming. As main results is emphasized that before the construction of the entreprise these affected fishermen had fishing as their main livelihood from the lake filling they are no longer fishermen to turn into fish producers, a fact which by itself, it was not able to ensure the socio-economic and cultural reproduction of the same.
