Aménagement de la ressource côtière au Japon : effet des repeuplements marins

Generally, fisheries in developed countries have to face three main constraints (according to the report of the synthesis meeting of September 17th, 1982, ISTPM Technical Reports n° 3 a 1983):- The evolution of marine legislation has just limited their access to a number of areas, forcing them to focus on their own economic area.- The high exploitation level of a number of stocks raises the issue of the limits of their production capacities.- Exploitation costs have strongly increased because of the oil crisis. As regards to this situation, the general concept of resource management, that is to say the passing of a set of measures aiming to protect and keep a good balance of the exploited stocks taking into account the laws of marine ecology and population dynamics as well as the socio-economic aspects of fisheries and farms, is more than ever on the agenda. For a long time already, Japan has introduced an efficient adjustment of its fisheries (1) and their development (2). In addition, Japan has pursued for more than 20 years a voluntarist policy of resource development and promotion of their halieutic resources productivity through intensive (YOSHOKU in Japanese) and extensive (ZOSHOKU) culture techniques which can be classified as follows. [...]