This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the design and revision of a decentralized marine management scheme implemented on the island of Moorea, French Polynesia named Plan de Gestion de l’Espace Maritime (PGEM). Drawing on an analysis of over 50 consultative workshops and meetings, held from 2018 to 2021 during the PGEM revision, we document the materials, discourses, and practices local stakeholders (e.g., fishers, cultural and environmental activists, government staff, and scientists) combine to build their interpretations of PGEM success or failure. We examine the diversity of domains these interpretations draw from (ecology, marine livelihoods, culture, religion, and politics) and how they are put into practice in people’s engagement with—or resistance to—the local marine management and governance design. Our results highlight how the controversies around the revision of Moorea’s PGEM overflowed the boundaries of ecology as construed by scientific experts. Stakeholders interpreted “marine resource management” as something well beyond just “marine resources” to include politics, identity, Polynesian cosmology, and livelihoods. Our findings provide generalizable patterns for understanding how natural-resource management policies are received and repurposed by local actors.

本文介绍了在法属波利尼西亚莫雷阿岛实施的分散式海洋管理计划的设计和修订的人种学案例研究，该计划名为Plan de Gestion de l'Espace Maritime（PGEM）。根据对 2018 年至 2021 年 PGEM 修订期间举行的 50 多个协商研讨会和会议的分析，我们记录了当地利益相关者（例如，渔民、文化和环境活动家、政府工作人员和科学家）结合的材料、话语和实践建立他们对 PGEM 成功或失败的解释。我们研究了这些解释所来自的领域的多样性（生态、海洋生计、文化、宗教和政治），以及它们如何在人们参与或抵制当地海洋管理和治理设计时付诸实践。我们的结果强调了围绕 Moorea 的 PGEM 修订的争议如何超出了科学专家所解释的生态学界限。利益相关者将“海洋资源管理”解释为不仅仅是“海洋资源”，还包括政治、身份、波利尼西亚宇宙学和生计。我们的研究结果提供了可概括的模式，以了解当地参与者如何接受和重新利用自然资源管理政策。