Cherbourg
Cherbourg
- Administrative Port: Manche
- County: Basse-Normandie
On the middle of the northern coast of the Cotentin peninsula, at the mouth of the Divette and at the bottom of the bay between Cape Levi east and Cap de la Hague west, Cherbourg -Octeville is 120 km from the English coast. Cherbourg is the largest city in the department of Manche, and resulted from the merge of the municipalities of Cherbourg Octeville.[1]
| Background information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 1 | 14 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 2 | 5 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 3 | 7 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessels total | 26 [2] | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | All species (tonnes) | 5531,5419 |
| Landings | Values | All species | 14227,9334€ [3] |
| Governance and organisation | Location of fishermen's organisations | CRPMEM de Haute Normandie, 26, Quai Galliéni 76200 DIEPPE
CRPMEM du Nord/Pas de Calais/Picardie, 12, rue Solférino 62200 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER | |
Vessel type 1= Coastal fishing vessels: Vessels which spend more than 75% of their time in the 12 nm zone.
Vessel type 2= Coastal/high sea vessels: Fishing vessels that fish 25% -75% of their time in the 12 nm zone.
Vessel type 3= High sea vessels: vessels that fish more than 75% of their time outside the coastal zone. These vessels fish offshore the French coast but are in some cases active in the coastal zone of other countries.[4]
References
- Jump up ↑ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherbourg
- Jump up ↑ Data from 2011. Source: Ifremer
- Jump up ↑ Data from 2013. Source: France Agrimer
- Jump up ↑ Leblond, E., Daures, F., Leonardi, S., Merrien, C., Demaneche, S., Le Blond, S., Berthou, P.L., Pitel-Roudau, M., Macher, C., Lespagnol, P., Le Grand, C., Le Blond, S. (2013). Synthèse des flottilles de pêche 2011, flotte de Mer du Nord - Manche – Atlantique, flotte de Méditerranée dans le cadre Réalisation du projet "Système d'Informations Halieutiques" de l'Ifremer. Edition IFREMER Brest. p.289.
