Fishing
Scapêche adds ring netter to coastal fleet
French fishing company Scapêche has boosted the activities of its coastal fleet with the addition of a 17 metre ring netter.
FiskerForum
29/03/2016
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Fishing
Scapêche to end deep water fishery
French fishing company Scapêche is set to end its deep water fishing operations. Agromousquetaires, the food division of Groupement des Mousquetaires and the parent company of French fishing group Scapêche, has announced that it will gradually cease its deep water fishing operations between now and 2025.
FiskerForum
29/03/2016
Administration
Trawling amendment rejected
Much of France’s fishing industry has breathed a sigh of relief as proposals that would have had severe repercussions for the fishing industry were voted down.
FiskerForum
23/03/2016
Fishing
Boulogne trawler refitted
When Boulogne fisherman Stéphane Ramet was looking at investing in his family’s fishing business, the choice was between a new vessel and a refit, and they decided to go for an extensive refit of trawler Jean Paul II.
FiskerForum
21/03/2016
Administration
Crowdfunded film points the finger at ocean privatisation
A film by French filmmaker Mathilde Jounot has been premiered at the annual Pêcheurs du Monde film festival currently taking place in Lorient. The crowd-funded documentary attracted enough backing to be able to delve into issues surrounding increasing regulation of the oceans, as well as the question of privatisation and the shadowy role in this played by NGOs.
FiskerForum
18/03/2016
Fish Species
Bluefin gaining strength
Bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and Atlantic are doing better, according to a report by the French National Committee for Fisheries and Fish Farming (CNPMEM). Although the situation today is not perfect, bluefin have not disappeared as some NGOs had loudly predicted would happen by 2012.
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18/03/2016
Fish Species
Martinez to build new purser
The Martinez shipyard at St-Cyprien in south-western France has announced that it is to build a new tuna vessel in a contract worth €3.50 million. This is the first of its kind to be built for almost ten years.
FiskerForum
16/03/2016
Administration
French fishermen threaten blockade
A Parliamentary amendment linked to the Biodiversity Act that would ban deep water trawling will be voted on by French deputies later this week. France’s fishing industry is furious and Olivier le Nezet, chairman of the Brittany Fisheries Committee has said that such a ban would be a disaster.
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16/03/2016
Fish Species
Reviving a dormant fishery
Icefish were last caught in France’s Southern Ocean territories around Kerguelen more than twenty years ago and the fishery came to an end in 1993 when the mainly Russian and Polish trawlers that fished for it left many of their distant waters fishing grounds, including the French territorial waters around Kerguelen.
FiskerForum
07/03/2016
Newbuild
Opening the way for toothfish fleet renewal
Christened at its home port in La Réunion, the new Cap Kersaint paves the way for the renewal of the French-operated fleet fishing in the French Southern Ocean and Antarctic Territory (TAAF) of Crozet and Kerguelen waters for Patagonian toothfish.
FiskerForum
02/03/2016