ABSTRACT
The growing world demand for marine ‚sheries resources (95 million tons in 2006, scheduled to increase by 2% to 3% globally each year-UNESCO, 2001) is compounded by the prospect of a growing population and is a real threat to world ‚sh stocks. This threat particularly affects offshore or coastal ‚sh stocks in both the short and long term (Worm et al., 2006; Cury and Miserey, 2008). When facing sociocultural food issues in a crisis situation, ‚sheries resources managers generally focus on two fundamental principles: preserving stocks and developing marine ranching.
