Diversification of fisheries activities and construction of sustainability

Jean-Pierre Boude (), Carole Ropars-Collet (), Guy Fontenelle (), Laura-Mars Henichart, Marie Lesueur (), . Institut de Recherche Pour Le Développement, . Institut Français de Recherche Pour L'Exploitation de La Mer, . Université Montpellier 1 and . Université de Nantes
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Jean-Pierre Boude: SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AGROCAMPUS OUEST, AGROCAMPUS OUEST
Carole Ropars-Collet: SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AGROCAMPUS OUEST, AGROCAMPUS OUEST
Guy Fontenelle: ESE - Écologie et santé des écosystèmes - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - AGROCAMPUS OUEST, AGROCAMPUS OUEST
Laura-Mars Henichart: AGROCAMPUS OUEST
Marie Lesueur: AGROCAMPUS OUEST
. Institut de Recherche Pour Le Développement: IRD - Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
. Institut Français de Recherche Pour L'Exploitation de La Mer: IFREMER - Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
. Université Montpellier 1: UM1 - Université Montpellier 1
. Université de Nantes: UN - Université de Nantes

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Abstract: While French marine fisheries must cope with increasing difficulties, the concept of multifunctionality of fisheries is emerging through a diversification of their activities. Facing with new constraints (depleted resources, rising fuel prices, etc.), fishers develop alternatives to sustain their activity. They seek to find local solutions by introducing new kind of activities and innovations linked to their classic fisheries activities in order to confront with global changes (EU policies, globalized markets, climate change, etc.). These activities call for new ways of interacting with the environment questions, the role of institutional players, scientists, local stakeholders and customers together with their usual production activity. They develop alternatives based on the fishing boat activity by altering relations among fishers and the wider context in which they are embedded the coastal zone. When considered alone, each diversified activity seems to offer an individual solution of resistance. If considered all together, these solutions could become more relevant to support sustainable fisheries. Based on first results from two studies(1)led in France, in Brittany, and in the Channel (Interreg program), the aim of this research is to analyse how diversification of fisheries activities enhance sustainability and support integrated coastal zone management. By analysing activities of diversification in small-scale fisheries, we develop a classification of these heterogeneous activities. Then, we identify various strategies of diversification and their impact on the coastal zone. Finally, we analyse how diversification enhance resilience of small-scale fisheries, and how fishers become real actors with real links to other stakeholders, in order to built local policies in the coastal zone.

Keywords: PECHE; MULTIFONCTIONALITE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-07-13
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Published in IIFET 2010: Economics of fish resources and aquatic ecosystems: balancing uses, balancing costs, Jul 2010, Montpellier, France

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