New scalloper for le Havre
Le Havre fisherman Mickaël Devarieux has taken delivery of a new trawler designed to alternate scalloping and bottom trawling, his third boat and his first newbuild.
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Le Havre fisherman Mickaël Devarieux has taken delivery of a new trawler designed to alternate scalloping and bottom trawling, his third boat and his first newbuild.
The latest purse seiner in the French tuna fleet, the 77 metre, 1400 cubic metre capacity Gevred, sailed from Concarneau on Wednesday to start fishing off West Africa.
‘For many filmmakers, fishermen are like sentinels or whistleblowers facing today’s challenges: climate change, conflicts and migrants, power and resources, threatened biodiversity, grabbing and privatisation of the oceans,’ said festival secretary Jacques Chérel.
Boulogne PO FROM Nord, representing fishing vessels from distant water trawlers to inshore netters, is having to distribute sole allocations to its members cautiously this year following a 14% cut in this year’s quota.
Morgère has launched an innovative new monitoring system called Cyclops that enables pair trawlers to optimise trawl performance. It has been trialled by Boulogne fishing company Euronor’s trawlers.
The new tuna purse seiner built in Spain for French operator Compagnie Française Thon Océanique (CFTO) has been delivered to Concarneau.
Following an application by Brittany PO Cobrenord, France’s Competition Authority (Authorité de la Concurrence) has published its opinion that the present system of collective quotas as used in France is inefficient and constitutes a threat to fair competition.
French fishing companies Compagnie des Pêches, based in Saint-Mâlo, and the Boulogne-based Euronor are to get a new factory stern trawler in September 2017.
French Shipbuilding group Piriou has delivered a new freezer longliner to Cap Bourbon, designed for operating under the tough conditions of the French Southern and Antarctic Territories, including around Kerguelen and Crozet Islands.
The MSC label appears on over 23,000 sustainable seafood products distributed in over 100 countries worldwide, but had never been seen on a babyfood product. Until now that is! The breakthrough comes from the French company Yooji, which today launches its frozen cod portions, prepared solely with cod procured from MSC-certified sources.
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