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- Title
O mosaico dos poderes públicos em zona costeira numa região ultraperiférica da União Europeia: o caso da criação dos recifes artificiais na Martinica.
- Authors
Angelelli, Pierre; Saffache, Pascal
- Abstract
Located at the centre of the arc of the Lesser Antilles in the East of the Caribbean Sea, Martinique is an island of 1.100 km2. It is part of the French Republic and also of the European Union where it is recognized like one of the seven Outermost Regions, with the Canary islands (Spain), Madeira and the Azores (Portugal). A project of artificial reefs was initiated since 2000 to facilitate fish repopulation and allow, after a period of interruption of fishing, an optimal exploitation. The purpose of this paper is to show that, in terms of coastal management, the creation of artificial reefs in Martinique is interesting because it is an example of fragmentation and superposition of public responsibilities on local, national, European and international level, and divergences between the environmental and economic objectives. The "mosaic" of the public authorities and the evolution of the objectives increase the difficulty of participation of the professional fishermen in the creation of the artificial reefs - and, in a more general way, the problem to associate the users of the sea to coastal management. Paradoxically, this situation contains in it innovating solutions for the "governance" of the coastal areas in Europe. Indeed, contrary to the independent States or non-self-governing Territories of the Lesser Antilles, in Martinique the institutional unity of the sea can be obtained by a supplement of procedure and the use of complex instruments of the European Union.
- Subjects
MARTINIQUE; COASTAL zone management; ARTIFICIAL reef design &; construction; COASTAL engineering; NATURAL resources management; MARINE resources conservation; REEFS; ENVIRONMENTAL law; ENVIRONMENTAL monitoring
- Publication
Journal of Integrated Coastal Zone Management / Revista de Gestão Costeira Integrada, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 1, p65
- ISSN
1646-8872
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5894/rgci166