We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Politiques de pêche et innovations adaptatives des pêcheries artisanales sénégalaises.
- Authors
Dème, Moustapha; Thiao, Djiga
- Abstract
Over recent decades, the Senegalese artisanal fisheries have undergone major innovations in response to fishing policies and fluctuations in fish abundance. This article addresses the adequacy of public policies regarding the constraints and challenges in the fisheries sector with a view to integrating innovations into decision-making processes. Since these changes are essentially due to economic factors, we addressed the issue mainly from an economic angle. Our results demonstrate that attempts to modernize the artisanal fisheries by replacing for example the traditional canoes by semi-industrial boats have failed. In fact, the ability of artisanal fishers to adopt new innovations and more effective strategies was able to guarantee a greater viability and resilience of their activities. More generally, their adaptability allowed them to suitably react to various exogenous shocks related to the economic aspects as well as to the variability of fish abundance and demand. These adaptive interactions between natural capital and human capital which govern the development of the artisanal fisheries support the notion of 'weak sustainability' in the field of marine fisheries.
- Subjects
SENEGAL; SMALL-scale fisheries; SUSTAINABILITY
- Publication
Natures Sciences Sociétés, 2021, Vol 29, Issue 2, p174
- ISSN
1240-1307
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/nss/2021039