Port-en-Bessin-Huppain
Port-en-Bessin-Huppain
- Administrative Port: Calvados
- County: Basse-Normandie
Port-en-Bessin is a coastal municipality in the country Bessin, often simply called "Port" by its inhabitants. Its village is 9 km northwest Bayeux and 15 km east of Trévières. The two cities of Port-en-Bessin and Huppain merged in 1972 to form a municipality which also includes the hamlets of Villiers-sur-Port and Neuville.[1]
| Background information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 1 | 13 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 2 | 15 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessel type 3 | 6 | |
| Fishing Fleet | Vessels total | 34 [2] | |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | Main species (tonnes) | scallops (24,2%), small spotted catshark (8%), pouting (7,3%) |
| Landings | Total Landings (tonnes) | All species (tonnes) | 7329,2122 |
| Landings | Values | All species | 18396,109€ [3] |
| Landings | Landing points | Quay of the auction | |
| Landings | Location of auctions | Av. du Général de Gaulle - 14520 Port-en-Bessin Tèl. 02 31 51 68 00 - Fax 02 31 51 68 09 | |
| 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: stalls on the docks | |
| Tourism & Education | Festivals | Fête du goût du large (fête de la coquille Saint-Jacques et des produits de la mer), Fête de la mer (tous les 4 ans) | |
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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port-en-Bessin-Huppain
- 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.
