In the Channel, amateur fishermen fear a tightening of regulations on the coast

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The environment is today at the center of many debates. And it's always difficult to please everyone.

Fishery resources, in the field of shore fishingare an example of this and gave rise to the Saturday November 23, 2024 to the Georges-Rapilly room of theold town hall of Pirou (Manche), with sometimes divergent but constructive points of view.

Many guests

For now and gathered in general assemblyTHE members of the Association of amateur fishermen of the Channel (Apam le Sénéquet) had invited around the table the stakeholders in the safeguarding a living natural heritagethe defense and the maintaining a leisure activity on the west coastand the decisions taken by the public authorities.

Among the personalities, we noted the presence of Marianne Piqueret, deputy departmental director at the DDTM and delegate for the sea and the coast, but also Béatrice Gosselin, senator for Manche, Joëlle Leforestier, maire of Pirou, or even of Pierre Vogt, mayor of Tourville-sur-Sienne and Normandy regional advisorand Laura Touvet, president from Manche Nature.

Orders reassure or worry

On the agenda, tractor parking on the foreshore, clam fishing on foot, and shore bass fishing. Amateur fishermen fear a tightening of regulations on the coast.

For tractors, we are reaching the end of the agreements which have been signed between the town halls and the prefecture, and we wish for their renewal.

These conventions have until now authorized the provision of a concession on the beach to store tractors and put the boats in the water. The president of Apam le Sénequet is in favor of the progress reports that the town halls will carry out at the request of the Departmental Directorate of Territories and the Sea (DDTM).

Regarding clams, “faced with the practices of professional fishermen who misused their electric bikes on the foreshore, an order was issued on August 13 to regulate this use and it’s rather a good thing for fishermen on foot,” announces President Didier Mabille.

The quotasmonitored and put back for discussion regularly for everyone, do not in any case please the Manche Nature association which fears a progressive rarefaction you stock.

“A legal bug”

And for the on-board bar, “ a rural code decree penalizes us by prohibiting fishing for amateurs because public authorities aligned themselves with the European decision taken into account 2021 to prohibit this practiceprofessionals ».

But this decree was confronted with “a legal bug» and, in fact, Norman fishermen, like the Bretons, do not apply it. “We're still worried,” admits Didier Mabille, because it's never good to swim between two waters.

From our correspondent Christophe LUNEAU

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