| The french Guyana sh rimp fishery has grown from the sixties, following the development of US a nd Japanese fleets. The EEZ delimitation in 1977 and the french policy towards promotion of french vessels allowed, since 1980, the emergence of french ship-owners. The paper analyses the recent economie evolution of the enterprises and underlines first the importance of this activity within regional economy, and second its dependance on imported inputs. The french policy leads to an incrcase of the share of the net added value that remains in the depanment, but it also come to a poor financial status of the french ship-owners. The data collected and given in this paper will be used to feed a bio-economic model o f the shrimp fishery. |
