Lorient Océans unveiled, this Friday, June 28, 2024, a large banner of support for the fishing industry. “Collective work between the sector and the associations,” explains Olivier Sévère, boss of BVC Organization, at the origin of the project. “We couldn’t party as if nothing had happened.” This banner, unfurled on one of the walls of K3 at the Base, a few steps from the Quelle pas quay, is a way of “expressing our solidarity”. We can read messages from sailors: “We want to be recognized for our knowledge”, “We ask that humans be put back at the heart of debates”…. It is also a call for support from the entire sector. “From production to marketing,” comments Olivier Le Nézet, president of Sem Keroman and president of the National Committee for Maritime Fisheries and Marine Farming.
We are the large maritime territory of Brittany.
Land of training sailors
Present on the docks this Friday, Olivier Le Nézet did not fail to recall the diversity of activity of the Lorient port: “it is a whole ecosystem, it is the specificity of Lorient”. This specificity that Lorient Océans strives to highlight.
Olivier Sévère said it again during the official launch of this third edition. Just like the mayor of Lorient, Fabrice Loher: “Lorient Océans is a showcase of the maritime know-how of the territory” and “we are the great maritime territory of Brittany”.
A maritime ambition that the stakeholders will write about in the coming months and which they will debate this Saturday, June 29, during Lorient Océans. This requires recognition of the “specificity of ports and their unique ecosystem”, explains Fabrice Loher. But also training. “I hope that Lorient will be a training ground for sailors,” adds Olivier Le Nézet. The construction sites are underway.
