My sincere thanks to Joël Prado for having given me the opportunity to develop and present my work on fleet profiling, for his many corrections and suggestions, as well as for his great patience. Thanks are also due to Marc Taconet for making me welcome in Morocco and for permitting the use of unpublished information. This work could not have taken place without the intervention of Thang Do Chi, now professor at the University of Montpellier II, France, under whose guidance the work of producing a profile of Moroccan coastal fleets became an enriching experience. Thank you also to my colleagues and friends at Ifremer's Maerha laboratory in Nantes for the cordial welcome and the many beneficial exchanges with the methodological specialists of the team. Lastly, particular mention is due of my gratitude to Francis Lalöé and Allasane Samba, who made me aware of the tactics and strategies of fishing, and helped me to discover and love the Senegalese small-scale fishery.
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| Ferraris, J. ABSTRACT A fishing fleet profile aims to assist in understanding the complexity and structure of fisheries from a technical and socio-economic point of view, or from the point of view of fishing strategies. A profile consists of analysing the characteristics of individual units of the fleet, for example the boats, in order to classify these units and summarize the heterogeneity of the whole through a description of the component elements and their interrelationships. The identification of the various qualitative and quantitative parameters describing a fishing fleet, together with the characteristics of the boats associated with these parameters, constitutes a profile of the fleet. This document describes the steps necessary to produce such a profile, from planning and the implementation of the fleet survey, through data processing to the presentation of the results. The processes of analysis, classification and description require the application of specific statistical methods in order to extract the items of information that are fundamental and relevant to the objectives of the profile from a data-set consisting of the variables describing the units of the fleet. Various methods of data analysis are presented here in order to demonstrate their potential uses and relevance to different situations. The aim is to make them intuitively comprehensible without elaborating upon their theoretical basis. The Moroccan inshore fishery and the Senegalese small-scale fisheries have been used as examples in this document. |
