Programme Coquille Saint-Jacques, filière technique de culture sur le fond. Bilan des contrats de plan 1983-1988 & 1989-1993. Eléments de réflexion pour l'évaluation économique de la filière d'élevage de la coquille Saint Jacques (1992)

This document is made from reports of a working group joining together JFREMER biologists and economics to shape an economic evaluation of scallop Pecten maximus aquaculture. It lays out the synthesis of al1 available data on french scallop fisheries and market and takes stock of the farming technical results. The study also approaches the difficulties to implement this farming techniques and the problems linked with the development of a new aquacultural activity. This work contributes to determine the right research fields to cany out, to identify the projects which will be submitted to an economic analysis and to define the measures to take in order to allow an efficient technical transfer as well as a good sectorial survey