President Emmanuel Macron wants to “limit the activity” of underground chalits in certain areas of the French protected marine areas (AMP), announced in an interview published on Saturday, June 7 in several regional newspapers, including Oueest-France or Provence.
“There are places where it is necessary to limit its activity, which when scraping the substance, disturbs biodiversity and ecosystems that must learn to protect,” said the head of state, during an interview with several daily newspapers of the regional press, published two days from the good summit in the oceans.
A cartography work performed
A “very precise” work has been carried out with scientists and fishermen to lead to a “cartography that is the object of a consensus”, and that will be presented by the Minister of Ecological Transition Agnès Pannier-Runacher, he added, asking not to “stigmatize” fishermen “, men and women who work.”
The small selective fuel and gourmet fuel fishing technique, the background tracking is strongly criticized by NGOs that denounce their destructive impact on marine habitats and require their prohibition in all protected marine areas (AMP).
On Thursday, the EU presented its strategy to better protect the oceans, which adheres to a simple recommendation to end this fishing practice by 2030 in protected areas.
Reinforced protected marine areas
To date, 33% of the French waters are covered by at least one amplifier, but most of them allow all fishing practices.
Emmanuel Macron announced a strengthening of the protection of these amplifiers in “areas that have been subject to a consensus”, citing, for example, the port in the VAR, the Calanques near Marseille, Corsica or the Facade of the Atlantic.
With this strengthening of protection, France will achieve the European objective to place under a strong protection of 10% of its maritime domain “since January 1, 2026”, four years before the fixed period, he assured Emmanuel Macron.
The areas under high or integral protection, the strictest level of protection, currently limits 2.6% of the French maritime field, even falling in less than 0.1% in continental France.
France has also defined a legal regime of “strong protection” that is criticized by NGOs because it is not aligned with the international definitions of the European Union or the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
Source: BFM TV
