Fishermen, farmers, boaters, industrialists, tourists, scientists ... Their cohabitation is a necessity if we want to give a chance to the sea and to humanity. Examples of cooperation are increasing, often local or regional initiatives. The next issue of the West-France supplement "The sea, our future" explores them. To meet with Ouest-France, Tuesday, November 20th.
The sea has a future only if all the actors of maritime activities get to know each other and embark on the same boat, that of cooperation.
Fishermen and researchers, industrialists and boaters, oyster farmers and farmers, wherever these women and men talk to each other, explain themselves, choose to make their interests converge, it is that of the oceans and therefore of the humanity that comes out the winner.
Protect and exploit
"The question of who protects and who exploits is out of date. To exploit, we need to protect, " sums up the managing director of the marine park of Iroise, Fabien Boileau. The Breton Marine Park, a vital space to be preserved and observed, like that of Gironde, is a concrete and spectacular example.
Number 14 of the La mer, notre avenir newsletter invites you to discover other cooperation initiatives implemented by professionals from the sea, in the fields of research, fishing, energy, and boating, but also health, agriculture, food. They show that cohabitation of coastal and maritime activities is possible while respecting biodiversity and ocean conservation.
Examples with boaters in Aquitaine, oyster farmers and farmers in Normandy or Brittany, or the opening to the public data Shom, the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service of the Navy.
And to go further, this supplement, which carries the ambition for three years to transmit a better knowledge of the marine environment, takes its readers on a trip: towards the seabed with the hydrographic and oceanographic service of the Navy (Shom) ; or towards new horizons, in the wake of Jules Verne, with the exhibition of the sea, La Mer XXL, to be held in Nantes in June 2019.
Sustainable blue growth
The Ouest-France newspaper, with Infomer (the West-France group's sea pole and its titles the sailor, Sails and sailboats, Le Chasse-Marée, Marine Cultures and Seafood ), is not alone in this editorial commitment ; he was joined by the Sud-Ouest newspaper. This issue of La Mer, our future , like the previous one, is produced by the two major dailies of the West, with the most important maritime facades of the country. Not too much to meet the challenge of necessarily sustainable blue growth.
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