Since Thursday and the broadcast by the NGO Sea Shepherd, which campaigns for control of fishing methods and patrols at sea, of images showing thousands of dead fish floating off the Bay of Biscay, everyone is looking for the origin of the incident.
The Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin announced on Friday that she had requested the opening of an administrative investigation.
She also specified that the accident was declared in the logbook of the
Margiris
, a giant trawler involved, and that these fish will be removed from its quotas.
European Commissioner for Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevicius also announced the opening of an investigation via Twitter.
“The substantial and unusual density” of the targeted school of fish
The European association of pelagic freezer trawlers (PFA) put forward an explanation this Saturday, citing the “unusual” density of a school of fish that led to the rupture of a fishing net. "The
Margiris
, a member of the PFA, found off La Rochelle following reports of large schools of fish in this area, suffered a fishing incident at 5.50 a.m. Thursday, recalls the PFA in its communicated. “The ship instantly notified the competent authorities of the occurrence of this incident,” she continues.
“Rarely, the trawl containing blue whiting – a species subject to quotas – broke accidentally, thus involuntarily releasing fish into the sea. This trawl rupture is explained in particular by the substantial and unusual density in this area. , of the targeted school of fish,” the statement said.
"Faced with this incident, the
Margiris
has put in place drastic measures to prevent it from happening again," says the PFA.
"The trawl tows are already greatly reduced and the filling sensors have been updated to be in line with the exceptional density of the schools in this area", according to the press release.
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