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Mari-Lou docked yesterday in Lorient after its delivery trip from Stellendam. Image: AFAK - @ Fiskerforum
Newbuild

Lorient’s new seiner/trawler

The first of a pair of new trawlers for French company Scapak has completed its delivery trip from the Padmos yard in Stellendam, docking yesterday in Lorient.

FiskerForum 05/02/2019
The christening ceremony for the new Mercator took place in Boulogne yesterday - @ Fiskerforum
Newbuild

Second wave of Boulogne newbuilds

Scopale, based in Boulogne-sur-Mer, has welcomed its fourth new fishing vessel to the port. Built for Sébastien and Guillaume Leprêtre, the new Mercator is a 22 metre trawler/seine netter, and while it has significantly less engine power than the 1991-built trawler it replaces, it is more flexible and has better conditions for the crew.

FiskerForum 27/01/2019
Piriou will deliver Saupiquet’s Via Alizé in 2020. Image: Piriou - @ Fiskerforum
Fish Species

Saupiquet orders tuna seiner from Piriou

French tuna company Saupiquet, part of the Bolton Group, has placed an order for a new 67 metre tuna purse seiner to be built at Piriou’s yard in Vietnam with a 2020 delivery date. The new vessel will become the latest addition to the series of eight 80-90 metre tuna vessels delivered by Piriou from both its Vietnam and Concarneau yards since 2010 for several tuna operators.

FiskerForum 12/01/2019
Patron Jean Tabourel launched at the yard in Boulogne. Image: Socarenam - @ Fiskerforum
Fishing

Normandy pair from Boulogne yard

With the delivery of a seine netter/trawler or Les Sables d’Olonne completed only a a few days earlier, the Socarenam yard in Boulogne has also handed over identical trawlers for two owners in Port-en-Bessin.

FiskerForum 26/12/2018
Small-scale French bass fishermen expect a closure to be imposed any day - @ Fiskerforum
Administration

Line boats fear imminent French bass fishery closure

Now working for the last three weeks with a daily catch limit of 50kg, French small-scale line fishermen fear a complete closure of the bass fishery any day now, at a time of year when bass is crucial to their livelihoods.

FiskerForum 18/12/2018
Via Aqua’s study focuses on the French mussel market - @ Fiskerforum
Fish Species

Study focuses on French mussel market

French seafood consultancy Via Aqua has been monitoring the growing French market for both live and frozen mussels since the early 2000s, and a new report follows a series of anlyses that were initiated in 2003 by Marie Christine Monfort, founder of Marketing Seafood.

FiskerForum 04/12/2018
French small-scale fishermen protesting over the state of bass management. Image: Plateforme Petite Pêche - @ Fiskerforum
Fish Species

French bass fishermen’s worst fears realised

According to Plateforme Petite Pêche, representing French small-scale fishermen, commercial fishing for bass in the Bay of Biscay has been subject to an annual catch limit, set for 2018 at 2240 tonnes. But as of 22nd November, only 200 tonnes were left, less that 10% of the total at a critical time of the year.

FiskerForum 30/11/2018
The new trawler is scheduled for delivery in 2019 and replaced the older Nominoe. Image: Piriou - @ Fiskerforum
Fishing

Channel trawler order for Piriou

An order has been placed with French shipyard Piriou for a new 22.50 metre trawler for Armament Cabaret, with a delivery date in 2019. The newbuild will be registered in St Brieuc and is expected to operate in the Channel and Celtic Sea.

FiskerForum 27/11/2018