Quelques réflexions sur la conception japonaise de l'aménagement des pêches

Coastal fisheries and marine cultures developed under strong biological, economical and social constraints. Among others are limitation of space and resources, limited availibility of capital, hardship of work,... Industrial, urbanistic and touristic development add to these constraints in coastal areas. Coherent scheme for coastal fisheries management, capture and culture, is of an urgent need. In renewable resources and environnement economics, depletion and pollution resulting from common ownership have been the core of the theory about fisheries management. The chronology of Japanese coastal fisheries management system shows a different approach. In law and decision making, social and economic consequences of conflictual uses and of their regulation are given large place. In such matter there cannot be any model. Historical, past and present, circumstances are not similar. However the discussion of advantages and limits of the Japanese system may still be useful. [NOT CONTROLLED OCR]