IAnnelies-fullone of the largest trawlers in the world, prepares to launch its gigantic nets into the Atlantic, between Greenland and the Azores, in search of blue whiting. Objective: capture thousands of tons of these pelagic fish to transform them on board into frozen surimi paste. 20,000 tons could be needed, or a good part of the 53,000 tons of the French quota. However, this factory ship does not fly the tricolor flag: it was part of the Parlevliet & van der Plas fleet, before this Dutch group, champion of industrial fishing, sold it to its Polish subsidiary Atlantex, while this country does not have a quota for blue whiting
Returning to Europe from Peru and Chile, in the Pacific, theAnnelies-ilena It is currently preparing to set sail. Probably around November 15, it will leave the Dutch port of Ijmuiden, which these days welcomes other large ships, ready to undertake their seasonal campaigns around the world.
On Monday, November 11, to denounce this industrial fishing campaign, several dozen protesters came to brandish a banner in front of the town hall of Lorient (Morbihan), whose mayor, Fabrice Loher (UDI), is also the minister delegate responsible for the sea. and fishing. “A boat capable of catching 400,000 kilos of fish a day and storing 7 million kilos necessarily harms small fishermen! »estimates Vincent Boufffort, who came to join the procession at the call of Extinction Rebellion. “I had heard about it: the Mauritanians nicknamed it the “hell ship” for having drained its waters of its resources. »
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