Fishermen must reject more than 200 kg of scallops

Hard blow for the fishermen of the north of Charente-Maritime.

While the scallop fishery had (finally) opened, Thursday, the presence of a toxin at too high rates was again confirmed, which forced them to reject all their catch of the day.

According to

, the fifty or so boats returning from Pertuis Breton, between Ile de Ré and the Vendée coast, must have released between 200 and 400 kilos of scallops ...

The fishermen of the north will not be able to market their scallops before the beginning of December, we learned from fishermen officials and the prefecture.

The results of the analyzes "show toxicity with a risk to human health if swallowed", explained the prefecture in a press release.

The result of the samples was known just after the morning fishing

The scallop season could not start as planned at the start of the month due to

(ASP) levels above the health threshold of 20 mg / kg, but it was finally able to break down. open Thursday after two very favorable weekly analysis results.

However, new samples whose results were known Thursday just after the morning fishing revealed a rate of 30 mg / kg of this so-called amnesic toxin, preventing the marketing of the fishery product.

The boss of local fishermen pessimistic for the rest of the season

"ASP does not come back often but it is always present in our waters", explained the president of the Departmental Fisheries Committee, Philippe Micheau.

“No one knows what this resurgence is due to, neither the scientists nor us.

We went down to 3 mg, then to 4 mg and yesterday it went back to 30 ”.

No scallops from the Charentais strait could be marketed this fall and the boss of local fishermen is "pessimistic" for the rest of the season, which ends on December 22.

The fishermen had already had to deplore the very important presence of voracious octopus

This fishing represents on average "between a third and a quarter of the annual turnover" of the fifty boats which practice it locally, explained Romuald Coutanceau, member of the Fisheries Committee.

Charentais fishermen have already had to deplore this year the presence of very large quantities of octopus, a particularly voracious species, in the Pertuis, an area which acts as a nursery for crustaceans and shellfish.

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