La recherche scientifique face à la pêche artisanale = Research and small-scale fisheries

Abstract

A fisheries development administrator and a researcher carried out a survey in eleven African countries to gain a better understanding of current physical and human problems in African fisheries, in order to assess foreign aid from recipient's perspective and to suggest future action. The objective is for the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to become more aware of the importance of African small-scale fisheries. The survey was conducted using questionnaires at the "second level" : it was answered not by the small-scale fishermen themselves but by people who are directly involved with them and know them best, i.e. the administrators, technicians, researchers and sociologists. The results of the study show that the most pressing problems are not so much technical as organisational, economic, and even political, and call for serious interdisciplinary research efforts. (Résumé d'auteur