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Fishermen on the French Mediterranean coasts are assembled in old and original collectives called prud’homies and follow their own rules. The individuals in charge of these areas, the prud’hommes, manage coastal fishing areas, act as auxiliary police, settle disputes between members, participate in the regulation of the use of coastal areas, and have an important social influence. They take into account the evolution of available short- and medium-term resources and set rules that are accepted by all fishermen in the collective.
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Decugis, C. (2015). Mediterranean Prud’homies. In: Ceccaldi, HJ., Hénocque, Y., Koike, Y., Komatsu, T., Stora, G., Tusseau-Vuillemin, MH. (eds) Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_32
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