Question 14283 — aquaculture and professional fishing

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Mrs Liliana Tanguy draws the attention of the Minister of Agriculture and Food to the entry into force, by January 1, 2019, of the landing obligation. Introduced in 2013, this obligation prohibits the discards of certain species at sea and involves the retention on board of non-compliant catches, on the grounds that they are composed of juvenile or unauthorized species. Undeniably leading to an increase consequent volumes of catches to be brought ashore, this “zero discards” policy arouses concern among fishing professionals in France. To meet this obligation, vessels will have to increase their storage capacity or accept that the market value of catches unloaded in ports is lower. However, the possibility of a choke-effect, that is to say the impossibility, with current tools, of carrying out a selective capture in fishing zones where several species with different quotas coexist cannot be ruled out. The fear of fishermen is that the vessels will be forced to stay at the quay so as not to risk catching species for which there is no longer or no quota, even though they still have fishing rights for other species. Professionals would thus be obliged to cope with a drop in profitability of their activities, an increase in sorting time, as well as a deterioration of safety on board. She questions him about the support measures planned by the Government to help fishing professionals in implementing the landing obligation as well as the proposal to replace the landing obligation with a declaration obligation.

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