2023-09-23 09:25:00
Charles Guyard // Photo credit: PHILIPPE HUGUEN / AFP
The account is not there for fishermen after the presentation this Friday of the energy transition plan to adapt vessels that consume too much fuel. According to them, the government’s announcements are not up to par. With the end of the boost in fuel prices, an entire sector risks dying.
Could the energy transition cause the death of the French fishing industry? This is what professionals in the sector fear after the presentation this Friday of the energy transition plan by the Secretary of State for the Sea, Hervé Berville. Announcements which are not up to par for the representatives of the sector present and who decided to leave the room. For fishermen, who were waiting for a quick response to the “cataclysm” experienced by the sector due to the cost of fuel, it is “disappointment” and fear which obscures the future of the sector.
“We are going straight into the wall”
“I can’t imagine La Turballe without fishermen”, yet this is what could happen, especially after the announcement of the end of the boost on diesel. In this small town in Loire-Atlantique, one in five inhabitants lives from the sea, a town which will have to transform its economy to survive without any guarantee of success: “In Piriac-sur-Mer, there was up to one hundred boats, today it is a tourist town, but tourism does not provide food” confides the deputy for maritime affairs, Didier Marion.
We must do everything so that fishermen “can make a living from their profession and I feel that we are going straight into the wall, the shock risks being particularly violent”, when we know that a fisherman can employ up to four people. down. The entire sector is threatened today: “the first to be impacted will be the mechanics, then the equipment suppliers. I think the guys will stay on the ground and we will have bankruptcy filings” according to Jean -Jacques Muriel, head of the Maritime Cooperative.
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