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A flow of second-hand French trawlers to Ireland has boosted business for French winch manufacturer Bopp as it finds itself with a new market on its doorstep.
Langoustine are a focal point of Lorient’s small-scale fleet landings, with the emphasis on landing high-value live langoustine that make their way to the port’s 4am auction for the small boat fleet’s landings.
The Piriou yard started out as a straightforward repair yard fixing the Concarneau fleet’s trawlers, netters and seiners, but as the fleet grew, the yard grew with it, becoming one of the few yards in France building tuna purse seiners and large trawlers.
France’s top fishing port in value terms but training behind Boulogne in tonnage, Lorient’s fishing sector is being energetically promoted by the port and local authorities, as well as by the dozens of companies that rely on the fishing business for the livelihoods.
Dutch pelagic group Parlevliet en van der Plas is in the process of negotiating to acquire French tuna operator Compagnie Française du Thon Océanique (CFTO), which operates a fleet of fourteen tuna purse seiners in the Indian and Atlantic oceans.
Launched in January last year, Morgère’s Exocet trawl doors have been just the success Michel Dagorn had expected them to be.
Mathilde Jounot’s crowdfunded film, Oceans, La Voix des Invisibles (Oceans, the Voice of the Invisibles), which explores the relationship between NGOs, corporations and the perceived efforts made towards privatising the oceans is now available with its English subtitles.
La Réunion fishing company Sapmer has announced loss of €6.10 million for the 2015 operating year, close to half the amount lost the previous year (€11.9 million). The company has been through some difficult years and appears to be struggling to make returns on its heavy investments in new tonnage in recent years.
France Pélagique, the fishing company established thirty years ago by Concarneau fishing operator Antoine Dhelemmes and Dutch trawler owner Cornelis Vrolijk, has moved from its Paris base.
The decision announced earlier this week by French fishing company Scapêche to phase out its deep water activities has not been universally welcomed by industry figures.