Question 12200 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Perceval Gaillard draws the attention of the Minister for Overseas Territories to the need to protect threatened traditional Reunion practices. Thus, since his election in 2022, Mr. MP has defended the practice of batay kok, too often compared in France to bullfighting or the fighting of animals trained to fight. Thus, in the context of bullfights, it is a systematic public execution of an animal, which has no chance to get out of it, by a human being. Conversely, in the context of batay kok, it is a fight between animals of the same strength which are natural fighters and which are perfectly impossible to force to fight. Furthermore, it is very rare that these fights end in the death of one of the two animals. This practice, strongly anchored in Reunion Island, should therefore not be confused with the practices of animal fighting trained to kill as can unfortunately exist in France. Very attached to animal protection, Mr. MP is keen to defend this tradition which is not at all about animal abuse, contrary to what can sometimes be said out of ignorance. On the contrary, cock breeders are very attached to their animals, treat them in the best possible way and do everything to prevent them from injuries and of course death. dead. Furthermore, traditional Reunionese fishing (bichiques, capuchins) as well as coastal recreational fishing are also threatened. This is obviously not a question of opposing the protection of the resource. Traditional fishermen know their ecosystem and have always respected their environment. They are the best experts in their field. The scarcity of fisheries resources is not their fault but rather involves intensive fishing carried out by large trawlers which take enormous quantities of fish, incommensurate with traditional amateur fishermen. The new European regulation requiring the declaration of any catch made in the context of recreational fishing further endangers this traditional practice, without calling into question this intensive overfishing responsible for the depletion of fishing resources. Of Furthermore, in a very complicated economic context in Reunion, the social dimension of recreational fishing must be taken into account. This allows many families to have a meal when they could not afford to eat fish due to lack of sufficient purchasing power. He alerts him to the threats weighing on these different traditional practices stemming from Reunionese history and to which the Reunionese and the Reunion Island women are strongly attached. As Minister for Overseas, it is necessary for her to become aware of these specificities and to consider them as a constitutive element of Reunionese society. The anger towards decisions which appear to be disconnected from the reality in Reunion and decided by a distant power is already immense. Without consultation with the main stakeholders and without taking into account the specifics, he also alerts him to the fact that this anger could quickly turn into revolt. He asks her for her position on this subject.

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