@article{fdi:010073796,
  title = {{C}an overexploited fisheries recover by self-organization ? {R}eallocation of fishing effort as an emergent form of governance},
  author = {{B}rochier, {T}imoth{\'e}e and {A}uger, {P}ierre and {T}hiao, {D}. and {B}ah, {A}. and {L}y, {S}. and {N}guyen-{H}uu, {T}ri and {B}rehmer, {P}atrice},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{O}wing to high costs and difficulties in implement control, fisheries are less regulated than terrestrial activities. {I}n areas of weak governance, self-regulation is often the rule. {U}nderstanding the underlying bio-economic mechanisms that drive such fishery systems is crucial for decision making on how to support real fishermen communities. {F}ishing effort reallocation occurs when economic yield drops, suggesting a feedback between fishermen's mobility and local overexploitation. {T}he nature of this feedback is addressed here by using a bio-economic modelling approach applied to a {S}enegalese fishery. {T}he white grouper is a highly valued commercial fish that has suffered intense exploitation in {S}enegal and was predicted to collapse due to a lack of fishery regulation combined with high demand. {S}urprisingly, our analysis of landings and associated price variability suggests that a slow recovery of this fishery is now underway. {M}otivated by this finding, two models were implemented that account for artisanal fishermen's mobility and variable prices. {B}oth models provided the same insight: fishing effort mobility combined with variable fish prices induced a shift from local overexploitation to sub-regional sustainable exploitation. {C}onsidering that fishing effort mobility has steeply increased in recent years, this mechanism might have significantly contributed to the recent observed trends in prices and landings for this fishery. {M}ore generally, these bio-economic models suggest that spatial reallocation of fishing effort acts as emergent governance in under regulated areas that allows, in some cases, the recovery of an overexploited species.},
  keywords = {{S}mall scale fisheries ; {S}elf-regulation ; {F}ishing effort ; {B}io-economic model ; {M}igration of fishermen ; {W}est-{A}frica ; {AFRIQUE} {DE} {L}'{OUEST} ; {SENEGAL}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{M}arine {P}olicy},
  volume = {95},
  numero = {},
  pages = {46--56},
  ISSN = {0308-597{X}},
  year = {2018},
  DOI = {10.1016/j.marpol.2018.06.009},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010073796},
}