how not to fall into the net industrial fishing

FRANCE 5 – MONDAY DECEMBER 16 AT 9:05 P.M. – INVESTIGATION

As usual, the magazine “Sur le front”, presented by Hugo Clément, begins with an alarming observation. Populations of cod, halibut, grouper and tuna have seen their populations “fall 90%”specifies the narrator.

As usual, he then attacks the entrepreneurs. Tonight, those who have spent “small arrangements with nature” and with the word « sauvage »namely producers of scallops and salmon. A priori, however, shell fishing is ultra-controlled, as shown in the report in Saint-Malo (Ille-et-Vilaine). It's forgetting that“a large part of scallops are not born out of love”but by artificial fertilization before spending the first months of their life in a Breton hatchery.

A similar technique is used for so-called “wild” salmon in Alaska. Neither one thing nor two, Hugo Clément goes there – without specifying whether he is taking the plane or the train – for an effective report, including an unappetizing scene of hand fertilization of eggs with sperm. “Salmons are born without a view of the river”saddens the commentator.

Virtuous practices

Back in French territorial waters, the journalist then intends to denounce the scandalous fishing of bluefin tuna encircled by immense floating nets with the help of an activist from Sea Shepherd, the NGO founded by Paul Watson (as a reminder, They atethe online media co-founded by Hugo Clément, produced a documentary this summer on the whale defender imprisoned in Nuuk, Greenland). It is with the help of another NGO, Greenpeace, that he approaches another common “target”: a trawler whose 200-meter net catches more than 1,000 tons of herring.

To finish, as always, the last part reveals virtuous practices, in the company of a professional angler, shrimp fishermen “in the trap”, or on the site of an imperial marsh shrimp farm… And he we have to wait until the last five minutes for the professor of marine ecology in Rennes Didier Gascuel to reveal that it is entirely possible to eat fish without feeling guilty for the planet, including while shopping at the supermarket, as long as you follow it carefully. his advice, like, to name just one, favor herbivorous farmed fish such as catfish.

Good news as the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety praises on its site the “precious” nutritional qualities of fish and suggests eating it twice a week, without forgetting the festive shellfish and spider crabs!