Abstract EN:

Nowadays, artisanal maritime fishery is known to be in great development in Côte-d’Ivoire. This development is essentially animated by fishermen coming from neighbouring ghana, specially fante and ewe fishermen, established in numerous places along the Ivoirian Coast. This ghanaian canoe fishermen's dynamism is often reduced to sui generis characters which would make them great migrant fishermen in contrast with ivoirian farmers, and thus interpreted in reference to fixed "traditons". But this situation is much more the product of historical processes. The matter is thus, through the identification and analysis of contexts and periods, to analyse these processes in their various forms; in fact, theses processes are not only the result of the combination of what is seen as objective conditions but also connected with the ideological construction of the colonial and independant ivoirian state and with the formation of social groups within it. The question is also to understand the forming of the groups of fante and ewe fishermen in the Ivoirian context, their present working where migration and settlement are closely articulated, and the production of historical memories by these groups through the collect and interpretation of oral relations about the founding of fishing settlements and fishermen's biographical elements.