This article is based on a case study about fishermen working in coastal lagoon partially located within a national park, created in 1998, in a region that has adopted an economic model based on the extraction of oil for three decades. On use qualitative research and theoretical-methodological approach that focuses on the teories of political ecology and theory of recognition. The article identifies environmental conflicts experienced by fishermen in situations of model changes and socioeconomic regional deployment of conservation unit, and discusses the reasons and conditions so that conflicts are present in a latent form - when environmental injustice has no clear causes for them - or outsourced - when there is oversight and punitive action by the State or disagreements regarding work rules among the fishermen themselves.
Environmental justice; Environmental conflicts; Fishermen