Perspectives de la pêche commerciale dans l'Arctique : eldorado ou richesse unique à protéger?

• Main Author: Boyer Chammard-Bangratz, Augustin
• Other Authors: Lasserre, Frédéric, Tremblay, Jean-Éric
• Format: Thesis
• Language: French
• Published: Université Laval 2013
• Subjects: geo; socio; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Baffin Bay; Eldorado; Arctique*; Baffin; banquise; Climate change; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/24224

According to climate change and retreat of sea ice, Arctic becomes progressively opened to human activities which include commercial fishing and marine biological resources should have negative consequences for Arctic marine ecosystems. It seems relevant to analyze political and economic actor’s strategy and their interplay within the framework of commercial fishing and to understand their wishes to develop this commercial activity within the framework of sustainable development. Based on national, international and subnational statistics, a questionnaire was sent to fishing companies, meetings with federal and territorial ministries, management boards and other arctic coastal states. I would like to understand the development of commercial fishing and sustainable fishing evolution in Canadian Arctic and Arctic high sea. The wishes of economic and political actors to exploit fish stocks are incontestable but some technical, scientific, economic and legal obstacles limit commercial fishing expansion and increasing. In Canadian Arctic, disagreements between southern and northern fishers regarding resources exploitation, lack of scientific knowledge and infrastructures, and low productivity suggests that commercial fishing is limited in Baffin Bay. Within Arctic Ocean, different strategies of Arctic coastal states and low commercial fishing perspectives do not encourage a sustainable framework of commercial fishing. However, precautionary principles request commercial fishing framework implementation before sea ice retreat allows a commercial fishing beginning. So, we are not witnessing a race to fishing Eldorado nor a ban of Arctic fishing. Fishing perspectives are low and commercial fishing development is slow but commercial fishing sustainability is not ensured. Keywords: Arctic, climate change, comanagement, commercial fishing, governance, Regional Fishing Management, sustainable development Avec les changements climatiques et le recul progressif de la banquise, l'Arctique s'ouvre doucement aux activités ...