Leblic I. auteur aut IRD text bookSection fre text/pdf reformatted digital access A knowledge of Kanake social organization (the indigenous population of New Caledonia) and the role that fishing clans hold within it, is an indispensableprecondition for understanding the successes and failures of marine development projects, a question of crucial importance for New Caledonia. The magical foundations of technical activities such as fishing laws, hierarchies between clans, the overall scheduling of catches and the distribution of foodstuffs, even today remain the unavoidable framework of any reflection on Kanake society, and even more so of any economic intervention from the outside. This article also enables us to see, on the basis of concrete examples, what are the contrainsts and opportunities of ethnological research in the face of different environmental policies produced by the political powers. (Résumé d'auteur) specialized PECHE ARTISANALE LAGON PECHEUR STRUCTURE SOCIALE CLAN ETHNIE POLITIQUE DE DEVELOPPEMENT AIDE PUBLIQUE COOPERATIVE ETUDE SOCIOECONOMIQUE NOUVELLE CALEDONIE 040SOCPEC01 Durand Jean-René ed. edt IRD Lemoalle Jacques ed. edt IRD Weber J. ed. edt IRD 747-756 Paris ORSTOM 1991 Symposium International ORSTOM-IFREMER, Montpellier (FRA), 1989/07/3-7 https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:36783 2-7099-1054-3; 2-7099-1056-X [F A36783] https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:36783 https://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_6/colloques2/36783.pdf IRD - Base Horizon / Pleins textes 1993-02-10 2011-07-08 fdi:36783 fre