Thomassin A. auteur aut IRD David Gilbert auteur aut IRD Duchene J. auteur aut IRD Bissery C. auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf born digital access Social acceptance is a key component of successfully establishing a marine protected area (MPA). Therefore, when the natural marine reserve (NMR) in Reunion Island was created in 2007, managers asked social scientists to assist them in monitoring and assessing social acceptance. This article presents the socioeconomic baselines and synthetic measures of recreational fishers' social acceptance. Recreational boat fishers' perceptions toward the NMR, current strategies, and territorial stakes were identified through fifty interviews. This led to five synthetic measures of social acceptance and the differentiation of five different groups of recreational fishers in terms of their uses opinions. The five groups of recreational fishers differed considerably in regards to three key aspects of social acceptance. However, local geography played little role in social acceptance, with views being relatively uniform across the three main ports. specialized marine protected area perceptions social acceptance territoriality territory 082 040 39 4 425-439 2011 0892-0753 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010055702 10.1080/08920753.2011.589222 0892-0753 [F B010055702] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010055702 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/intranet/publi/2012/04/010055702.pdf Accès réservé (Intranet de l'IRD) IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2012-05-04 2017-08-23 fdi:010055702 fre