After three years of crises around Covid, Brexit and energy, the French fishing sector is at boiling point. The National Fisheries Committee has organised a two-day shutdown – ‘Dead Days’…
The President of France’s National Fisheries Committee, Olivier Le Nezet, has made a public appeal to French President Emmanuel Macron over the way fishing is being treated. ‘I have never…
Moves towards a long-awaited ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ on seine netting activity in the Eastern Channel have – yet again – come to nothing, and French fishermen are asking for government intervention.…
France’s national fishing industry body has reacted furiously to the European Commission’s plans for demersal gears in MPAs, accusing it of proposing measures that will wreck whole sections of the…
France’s National Fisheries Committee (CNPMEM) has welcomed the decision by the Minister of the Sea to increase funding caps to €330,000 and to extend fuel support into next year. ‘It’s…
France’s National Fisheries Committee (CNPMEM) has come to the end of the electoral process to appoint a new President, with Olivier le Nézet emerging as the winning candidate at the…
‘This is going too far,’ said Gérard Romiti, President of the National Fisheries Committee, after consulting with Minister for the Sea Annick Girardin and industry representatives. ‘After the pandemic crisis…
Fishermen in Brittany, Normandy and the Pas de Calais are today taking action to disrupt cross-Channel traffic in a demonstration of their frustration over what they see as the UK…
A French industry delegation has presented its grievances over the ongoing situation with the UK to Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius and Vice-President of the European Commission Maros Sefcovic. France’s Minister of…
French fishermen have hit back at NGOs, providing figures to counter claims put forward by environmental groups concerning accidental cetacean catches, and dismissing some claims as being no more believable…