Abstract

French West Indies fishery fleet had 2007 actives boats in 2006. This fleet is essentially constituted by artisanal open boats. Her littoral distribution obey at multiple topography and biology opportunity offered. 272 accosting sites have been identified in Martinique and in the Guadeloupe archipelago, where landings occur all day long during all the year. 46 metiers (a gear associated to target specie) using 12 different gears, are practised in French West Indies. Captures are composed of 69 species groups recognized by fishermen, made of several biological species. More and more data are needed especially for assessing stocks, fishing and human activity impacts on biodiversity, or global change effect on marine species. This imposes a reliable data collection system. As part of a pilot project, data collection methods are tested. The objective is to limit data collection costs, warrant and permit the information reliability control. In this way, phone investigation complete sampling at landing points. For that, photograph of the captures are taken and then analysed on computer to get specific composition and species frequency distribution. These methods permit exhaustive analyse of captures and reduce inconvenience caused to professionals who have to sell immediately their production. It can be used by a field staff which don’t have necesserely knowledge in terms of species systematic.

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