Marine fisheries: An experimental field for geoprospective
A prospective approach can be used to establish management and environmental protection options to stimulate discussion and bring different scenarios for the future into perspective. This future-oriented process incorporates spatial dimensions with the development of a geoprospective approach. Indeed, a geoprospective approach highlights geographical dynamics and integrates spatial perspectives into the debate. A participatory framework for analyzing the marine fisheries sector has two main advantages. The first is academic, in that it helps to establish a methodological and epistemological corpus based on geoprospective. The method proposal allows, on the one hand, to discuss the purpose of the models and, on the other, to explore the role of researchers and stakeholders. The second advantage of using geoprospective for the marine fisheries sector is operational: Improving collective knowledge about the social and geographical dynamics and issues surrounding marine fisheries contributes to dialogue between the stakeholders involved. Ultimately, geoprospective could become a shared management strategy.