This study sought to describe the advantages and challenges of studying at a distance and has a general objective: to report the advantages and challenges of studying at a distance. It adopts as a type of research the quantity-qualitative approach. The methodological procedure took place in the first place to make a theoretical foundation to search in books, websites, magazines, etc., 7 closed and two open, and finally, the results sought to analyze the questions in order to seek the advantages and challenges of distance learning. The data revealed to us as an advantage, the opportunity to study at a time chosen by the academic, be it during the day or any time of the night, and the challenges are the difficulty of answers when there is a question at the time of study that often the time is not conventional. In this study, it showed that studying at a distance gives the possibility for some academics to study who live more than 100km away from the pole and also an opportunity for others who are in the day-to-day, working to support the home.

This experience report is the result of periods of experience in environments of live bait collection and in camps of artisanal professional fishermen categorized as isqueiro (live bait catchers), in the North Pantanal region, aiming to know and experience this activity. The experience took place at two collection points along the Paraguay River, 75 km upstream from the urban center of Cáceres-MT, and at another point further away, about 250 km. The activities took place in February and July 2022. During this period of experience, the techniques used to capture live baits, the social organization, and the challenges faced by these actors in the development of the activity were observed. After this period, it is observed that there is a vertical social organization in which knowledge is passed from generation to generation; the bait catchers carry out the activities in pairs, due to the risks involved in the work, both in the collection of live baits and the capture of termites to supply the traps. There are existing conflicts related to the capture of termites to capture live baits since there is no land in several regions where catchers are camped and they even use private areas to develop their activities.