Question 11260 — aquaculture and professional fishing

Summary

Mr. Christian Girard draws the attention of the Minister Delegate to the Minister for Ecological Transition, Biodiversity and International Negotiations on Climate and Nature, responsible for the sea and fisheries, to the application of the decree of July 22, 2025 requiring the installation of a toilet and a sink on all small professional vessels, including oyster barges of less than 12 meters. This obligation, thought to improve hygiene on board, proves to be materially inapplicable to oyster barges: these open boats have neither a cabin, nor a water supply, nor the slightest volume to accommodate a toilet. In some cases, the installation of such equipment would reduce the bridge to the point of making work on the oyster beds impossible. Professionals, already weakened by a difficult economic situation, are warning of a disproportionate measure and disconnected from their actual practices. Their activity consists of outings lasting a few hours, in the immediate vicinity of the shore and is already subject to some of the strictest health controls in the sector. The shipyards confirm the technical impossibility of compliance, while the administration recognizes the difficulties without proposing an exemption. He therefore asks her if she intends to grant a explicit exemption for oyster barges and, more broadly, for vessels less than 12 meters which cannot, in practice, accommodate a fixed sanitary installation. He also wishes to know the measures envisaged to prevent future standards from being imposed without prior verification of their technical feasibility.

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