Question 13271 — hunting and fishing

Summary

Mr. Matthias Renault 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 implementation of the “RecFishing” digital system requiring recreational fishermen at sea to register in advance and systematically declare their catches, under penalty of sanctions. While fishing leisure constitutes a popular, family and traditional activity on all coastlines, the Government has decided to impose compulsory digital registration, via a complex European system requiring the creation of a specific account and detailed declaration of catches. If the preservation of fisheries resources is a legitimate objective, the method raises questions. After having introduced a declaration obligation already particularly restrictive, the executive is now multiplying specific texts, like the recent decree limiting to five the number of mackerel that can be taken per day and per person. We are thus witnessing regulatory inflation fish by fish, which gives the feeling of endless bureaucratic drift. This accumulation of standards, individualized quotas and digital formalities is akin to a real factory administrative gas, weighing on thousands of French people practicing a leisure activity, often occasional and already subject to a proliferation of regulations. At a time when citizens are expressing deep fed up with the permanent complexity of their daily lives, he asks them if the Government intends to persevere in this above-ground logic or if it finally plans to trust the French by ceasing to accumulate disproportionate technocratic devices.

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