Question 10501 — aquaculture and professional fishing

Summary

Mr. Pascal Markowsky alerts the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature, responsible for the sea and fisheries, of the improbable obligation imposing sanitary facilities on board vessels of less than 12 meters. This measure results from the decree of July 22, 2025, modifying the decree of November 23, 1987 relating to the safety of ships and the pollution prevention. According to this text, any commercial or fishing vessel with an overall length of less than 12 meters must now be equipped with a sanitary installation including a water closet and a sink. Where possible, the ship should even be equipped with separate facilities for men and women. This obligation ignores everything about the reality of shellfish and mussel farming boats, in particular oyster barges, which are often simple motorized platforms without cabin, without interior volume and operating for working times limited to the duration of a tide. The installation of sanitary facilities on these units appears technically unfeasible, financially disproportionate and ecologically counterproductive: it would reduce the useful working surface, make the boats heavier, and require structural modifications. costly, or even lengthening the vessel, thus degrading the profitability and amortization of the investment. Shipyards also highlight the technical impossibility of adapting existing models to this new requirement, while professionals denounce an additional constraint added to the increase in loads, the mortality of oysters and the effects of climate change on salinity and water temperature. In Charente-Maritime as on the entire Atlantic coast, this measure arouses great concern and deep incomprehension. Oyster farmers point out that collective sanitation systems already exist on land, in the immediate vicinity of production areas, making an on-board installation unnecessary for outings not exceeding a few hours. This decree once again illustrates a drift technocratic disconnected from realities on the ground. It directly threatens the know-how of French oyster farmers and the competitiveness of a sector already weakened by rising costs and foreign competition. He therefore asks whether the Government intends to repeal this decree, in order to adapt the regulations to the concrete realities of shellfish farming, while respecting common sense and in consultation with professionals in the sector.

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