Data/hora: 11/06/2024 01:06:25

Provedor de dados: | 5
País: | France
Título: | Le secteur des peches dans les pays d'Afrique
Autores: | Weber, Jacques; Durand, Henri.
Data: | 1986-09-17
Ano: | 1986
Palavras-chave: | SEM.
Resumo: | 1. Enlightened indeed is the person who can claim to have precise knowledge of catches in Africa. Accuracy is in the neighbourhood of 50% or less in most cases, in statistics developed by the best teams of specialists, particularly the FAC. What is true, stock by stock, cannot be less so on the African continent as a whole. If marine fishing statistics are questionable, then what can be said of fishing throughout the continent! Thus, Zaire, with its huge hydrological network, is supposed to have 200 dugouts, less than Rwanda. We therefore earnestly beg the reader not to think that the numbers provided in this text have indisputable statistical value; they have been carefully compiled from existing sources, coming themselves very often from compilations, extrapolations, and interpolations. One must not look in these numbers for proof of what we are suggesting, but for the possible proof that we are mistaken: "unless the available data are sufficiently complete and exact, the biologist finds himself confronted with the uncomfortable alternative of having either to perform questionable operations, thereby taking the risk of giving an inappropriate opinion, or to give an opinion so imprecise that it becomes unusable". (FAO, Fishing Circular 1985:3). What is true for the biologist cannot be less so for an economist!  2. The large numbers obscure the national and local particularities. Africa is a continent of known diversity, which the overall statistics are likely to make us forget. It would not be too serious if the decisions that are implemented locally did not result all too often in big-picture views too broad to be locally pertinent. As an example, the notion of "dugout" encompasses many realities: what is there in common between the 25-metre dugout and Senegal's purse seine with a 25-tonne capacity, Lake Chad's papyrus craft, the rafts of the Sudanese south, the basic dug-out tree trunk of the southern rivers of Cameroon and the fishing barks of the Mediterranean? Any summary must erase the differences; one must refrain from drawing from them anything other than a summary view, a tracking of the questions common to the entire continent or group of countries.  3. If we try to summarise what is already only a summary, the following features stand out: - small-scale fishing commanding the continent's production, and secondary as far as investments and foreign aid; - the crucial position of women in the continent's "fishing systems"; - a considerable need for financing and at the same time instances of production overcapacity locally; - real attention to exports, and national systems of marketing widely left to themselves; - considerable natural resources and material and human handicaps not easily overcome. - a very unequal distribution of resources, assets and handicaps; the countries with abundant resources are not the ones that have the large populations.  Thus it appears to us to be a very contrasting situation, which calls for distrusting generalisations.
Tipo: | Text
Idioma: | Francês
Identificador: | http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/1986/rapport-2544.pdf
Relação: | http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/2544/
Formato: | application/pdf