The Net Effect? - Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society

Appendix 2
Breakdown of the French pelagic fleet for 1992
1992
The Net Effect?
A WDCS report for Greenpeace
Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4
Northern Biscay Total: 147 boats, working Total: 150 boats, working Total: 137 boats, targeting Total: 79 boats, targeting
in pairs targeting horse in pairs targeting sardine, anchovy and sardine. anchovy.
mackerel or hake. hake and horse mackerel.
(Also small activity in the
Celtic Sea.)
77 boats, pair trawlers 78 boats, working in pairs 90 boats, working in pairs, 34 boats, working in pairs,
with mesh size >20mm, and targeting hake and targeting small pelagic targeting anchovy.
targeting hake, sea bass horse mackerel (with species such as anchovy,
and horse mackerel. some trips to the sardine and horse
Celtic Sea). mackerel.
62 boats, pair trawlers 42 boats, targeting 47 boats, working with 17 boats, working in pairs,
working with several sardine and mackerel. panel trawls (one trawl targeting sardine and herring.
gears, targeting horse /single boat), targeting
mackerel, cephalopods
and pollack.
anchovy.
33 boats, working in pairs 32 boats, targeting anchovy,
using various types of
trawls, targeting cuttlefish
and pollack.
using panel trawl.
Southern Biscay Total: 103 boats, targeting Total: 108 boats, targeting Total: 131 boats, targeting Total: 48 boats, targeting tuna
anchovy and occasionally sea bream, squid, anchovy, tuna and swordfish. species and swordfish. Also
whiting. hake, Norway pout and (Also offshore.) capture other species
other species. including squid.
(Sometimes work offshore.)
16 boats, targeting sea 22 tuna boats, working 16 boats, targeting horse
bream and bass, and offshore, targeting mackerel, swordfish, tuna,
also capture herring tuna and swordfish. squid and hake. (Some
and mackerel.* offshore trips for tuna
species)
35 boats, working in pairs, 49 boats, targeting tuna 13 boats, targeting Norway
targeting horse mackerel, and hake. pout and other species,
sea bream and hake.
(They sometimes use
small-mesh trawls for
anchovy.)*
using several trawls.
37 boats, targeting various 60 boats, targeting Norway
other species with several pout, mullet, bass, squid,
trawls for a single boat. cuttlefish, sea bream
(Fisheries of Norway pout, and others, using various
whiting and squid also types of trawl
take place.)* (including bottom trawl).
Western English Channel 44 boats with several 15 boats, targeting sea bream
trawls for a single boat, (and targeting tuna and
targeting sea bream. swordfish offshore).
(Also targeting of whiting
in the Bay of Biscay, with
captures of Norway pout
and other species).
Notes 250 boats used pelagic 258 boats used pelagic 268 boats used pelagic 127 boats used pelagic trawls
trawls during this quarter. trawls during this quarter. trawls during this quarter. during this quarter.
67 boats, targeting anchovy 17 boats, targeting
in the Bay of Biscay, anchovy in the Bay of
working in pairs. Biscay with panel trawl.
* These boats also work
in the English Channel.
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