Is Participation in Eu Policy-Making the Answer to Improve Policy Outcomes and Legitimacy? the Case of the Common Fisheries Policy

The White paper on European Governance suggests enhanced participation and transparency to improve policies, regulations and outcomes. This paper identifies and addresses difficulties and constraints associated with increasing legitimacy through participation using the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) as an example. The Green paper leading to the reform of the CFP acknowledged that the current framework is not well suited to respond quickly to local and emergency circumstances and stakeholders do not feel sufficiently involved in important aspects of the policy. Regional Advisory Councils (RACs) was created to enhance stakeholder participation and improve policy outcomes as part of the reform of the CFP and hereby gain support for the conservation measures adopted. The paper will investigate how participation (or lack of) and the following representation presently influence outcomes in relation to the CFP in terms of legitimacy and effectiveness. Drawing on existing consultation arrangements designed to provide a full range of views from the fisheries sector and other stakeholders. Concluding that the present move towards increased participation in fisheries policy making will be a Fuite en avant, despite all good intentions and visions as long at the fundamental requirements for realising the vision are not thoroughly understood and the lessons from past experiences of participation are not integrated in the structure and more importantly arguing that increased participation is only a way forward if there is openness and readiness within the political and administrative systems to change the management approach if this become the outcome of a more participatory decision-making process

A Fishery Manager's Guidebook, Second Edition

A Fishery Managers' Guidebook was first published as an FAO Fisheries Technical Paper in 2002 to meet the need for information and guidance on the broad and often complex task of fisheries management. Based on subsequent experience and feedback gained from publication of the first edition, this new volume, has been expanded to provide broader coverage of the key elements of the task and updated in order to keep track of the rapid developments in theory and practice as academics and practitioners struggle to confront the many challenges facing modern fisheries management

Small Scale Fisheries Analysis in A Sustainable Development Perspective

An international symposium devoted to Research and small-scale fisheries (Durand, Lemoalle, Weber, 1991) in Montpellier (France) in 1989 came from increasing evidence that “the complexity of small scale fisheries calls for applying knowledge from many fields in combined studies that can take advantage of a whole range of information”. Has this assessment changed twenty years later? The references to sustainable development and to socio and bio-ecological diversities have highlighted the relationships between small-scale fisheries and natural, economic, social, cultural, and institutional aspects. In this paper we exemplify such interactions in different small-scale fisheries contexts in relation with poverty and food security issues. We question the consequences of different types of fleet dynamics in terms of adaptability, vulnerability and resilience of harvested ecosystems, and the impacts of the regulation systems on fishing communities. More generally, we question the paradigm of sustainable self-regulated small-scale fisheries. Finally, with references to several worldwide case studies and ecosystems we provide a description of the diversity of small scale fisheries, of the frameworks used to represent them, and of associated sets of relevant indicators used in monitoring and management programs. This presentation may be a first step toward a revisited pluri-disciplinary research framework for small-scale fisheries. This could be based on a research network built in order to produce and mobilize knowledge from a more comprehensive set of small-scale fisheries case studies.Keywords: Small Scale Fisheries, Fisheries Economics, Fish and Aquaculture Sectors Developmen

L'algoculture dans le monde et ses contraintes

The commercial cultivation of seeweeds has allowed substantial increases in annual production, still essentially Asiatic. Howewer, alongside the traditionnal producers (China, Japan and Korea), new nations are emerging (Chili, Indonesia and Philippines). Human consumption remains the principal use but processing industries are diversifying. Primary transformation is carried out in Western nations. Algae production is thereby increasingly subject to external constraints at global scale (supply markets and demand) as well at the national and regional scales (ecological, social, cultural, juridical).L'algoculture a permis d'accroître considérablement les débarquements annuels, encore principalement asiatiques. A côté des grands producteurs traditionnels (Chine, Japon, Corée du Sud) sont apparus de nouveaux producteurs (Chili, Philippines, Indonésie). L'utilisation alimentaire reste dominante mais les industries aval se diversifient. Les pays occidentaux assurent l'essentiel de la transformation de la matière première. La production d'algues est donc soumise à des contraintes exogènes mondiales (marché de l'offre et de la demande) et des contraintes endogènes nationales ou régionales (écologiques, sociales, culturelles, juridiques...).Bodiguel Clothilde. L'algoculture dans le monde et ses contraintes. In: Annales de Géographie, t. 105, n°591, 1996. pp. 480-497

Le principe d’opportunité : les pêcheurs des Provinces Maritimes du Canada devant les incertitudes des pêches

The principle of opportunity is an action principle of fishers facing uncertainties of their professional activity. It has been defined from a study on fishers in Lobster Bay and Charlotte County in the Maritime Provinces of Canada. This principle results from a representation of uncertainties in fisheries, particularly catches and resource abundance ; nevertheless its application to exploitation systems and its changes integrate all facets of uncertainties, including fisheries management by the Canadian federal government.Le principe d’opportunité est un principe d’action des pêcheurs face aux incertitudes de leur activité. Il a été défini à la suite d’une recherche menée auprès des patrons-pêcheurs de la Lobster Bay et du comté de Charlotte dans les Provinces Maritimes du Canada. Il résulte d’une certaine représentation des incertitudes de la pêche, en particulier, celles des prises et de l’abondance des ressources ; mais son application dans le système d’exploitation et ses modifications répond à toutes les incertitudes spécifiques à cette activité, dont la gestion des pêches par l’État fédéral canadien.Bodiguel Clotilde. Le principe d’opportunité : les pêcheurs des Provinces Maritimes du Canada devant les incertitudes des pêches. In: Cahiers Nantais, n°55-56, 2001. Terres, sociétés, itinéraires atlantiques. pp. 27-37