Ouessant
Ouessant
- Administrative Port: Finistère
- County: Bretagne
Ouessant is an island municipality in the department of Finistère in Brittany, consisting essentially by the Ouessant island in the Atlantic Ocean. The town of Ouessant is called Lampaul. Its inhabitants are called the Ouessantins. Ouessant is part of Armorica Regional Nature Park and the Iroise Marine Natural Park.[1]
| Background information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 1 | 2 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 2 | 0 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 3 | 0 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessels total | 2 [2] | |
| 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 | |
| Fish as food | Fish selling | Direct sale: covered market | |
| Tourism & Education | Tourism & Fishing | Possibilité d'embarquer : se renseigner auprès de l'office du tourisme | |
| Tourism & Education | Fishing museums | Musée des phares et des balises, Le Créac'h 29242 l'île d'ouessant, Tèl. 02 98 48 80 70 | |
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.[3]
References
- Jump up ↑ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouessant
- Jump up ↑ Data from 2011. Source: Ifremer
- 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.
