Fache Elodie auteur aut IRD Piovano S. auteur aut IRD Soderberg A. auteur aut IRD Tuiono M. auteur aut IRD Riera Léa auteur aut IRD David Gilbert auteur aut IRD Kowasch M. auteur aut IRD Pauwels S. auteur aut IRD Breckwoldt A. auteur aut IRD Carrière Stéphanie M. auteur aut IRD Sabinot Catherine auteur aut IRD text journalArticle eng text/pdf reformatted digital access In the South Pacific region, marine territories and resources play a crucial role for local communities. Children engage with these territories and resources from an early age onwards. As the next ocean stewards, they are a stakeholder group whose understandings of ocean connectivity and fisheries should be given serious consideration in decision-making processes towards the sustainable use and management of coastal seas. This paper analyses 290 children's drawings from Fiji and New Caledonia, created in 2019 in spontaneous response to the instruction: "Draw the sea and what you and others do in the sea". Exploring the webs of connections with and within the sea revealed by these children's drawings and their own interpretations leads us to discuss children's representations of the sea: (1) beyond a land-sea compartmentation, (2) as a locus of both exploitation and conservation of marine life, and (3) as a 'place-full' space connecting human and more-than-human realms. specialized Children Connectivity Fisheries Local ecological knowledge Oceania Pacific Ocean NOUVELLE CALEDONIE FIDJI PACIFIQUE OCEAN INDIEN 106 040 036 McCormack F. ed. edt IRD Mawyer A. ed. edt IRD Fache Elodie ed. edt IRD Kon Kam King J. ed. edt IRD Riera Léa ed. edt IRD Breckwoldt A. ed. edt IRD 51 12 2445-2458 2022 0044-7447 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086100 10.1007/s13280-022-01777-1 0044-7447 [F A010086594] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010086100 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/2022-11/010086100.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 2022-11-09 2025-02-24 fdi:010086100 fre