Government Contacts & Information Resources for
Commercial Fishing, Seafood, Aquaculture, Marine & Oceans in France

Europêche - Association of national organisations of fishing enterprises in the European Union.

European Commission - Fisheries - The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is the European Union's instrument for the management of fisheries and aquaculture. It was created to manage a common resource and to meet the obligation set in the original Treaties of the then European Community. Because fish are a natural and mobile resource they are considered as common property. In addition, the Treaties which created the Community stated that there should be a common policy in this area, that is, common rules adopted at EU level and implemented in all Member States.

European Association of Fish Producers’ Organisations (EAPO) - European Association of Fish Producers Organisations.

General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean - Consisting of 22 Member countries along with the European Community, the GFCM’s objectives are to promote the development, conservation, rational management and best utilization of living marine resources, as well as the sustainable development of aquaculture in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and connecting waters. Membership is open to both Mediterranean coastal states and regional economic organizations as well as to United Nations member states whose vessels engage in fishing in Mediterranean waters.

Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission - Commission for the Conservation and Management  of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the  Western and Central Pacific Ocean

Fishery and Aquaculture Country Profile for France - aquatic species caught by country or area, by species items, by FAO major fishing areas, and year, for all commercial, industrial, recreational and subsistence purposes. The harvest from mariculture, aquaculture and other kinds of fish farming is also included.

Ministère de l'Agriculture et de la Pêche - Le secteur des pêches maritimes et de l'aquaculture est essentiel dans la vie et l'alimentation des français.

The Charr Network - Through this site you will be able to investigate the research, the commercial exploitation and the natural history of the Arctic Charr / Char across the EU area

Official Government portal - French Civil Service Directory

French Portal for Agriculture and Fish - France portal for agriculture and fisheries.

AMOP : association méditerranéenne des organisation de producteurs

ARPEVIE : organisatino de producteurs des artisans pêcheurs de Saint Gilles Croix de vie

CAPSUD OP : Coopérative des Artisans Pêcheurs du Sud

CME : Coopérative Maritime Etaploise

COBRENORD : Organisation de producteurs coopérative de Bretagne Nord

COPEMART : organisation professionnelle de pêche du quartier martime de Martigues

COPEPORT : Société Coopérative des Pêcheurs Portais

PROCACO : Organisation de producteurs des ports du littoral

SATHOAN : Société coopérative des pêcheurs sète mole

CNPMEM : Comité National des Pêches Maritimes et des Elevages Marins

CIPA : Comité Interprofessionnel des Produits de l'Aquaculture

Pour tout savoir sur les coquillages d'élevage, un site du CNC (Comité National de la Conchylicuture)

Interprofessional National Board for sea and fish-farming products - OFIMER
The law of orientation on maritime fishing and the marine cultures gave rise to the OFIMER, office of intervention in the aquiculture and fisheries sector which replaced the FIOM as from January 1, 1999. Publicly-owned establishment related to commercial industrial and, it is placed under the supervision of the minister in charge of fishing and the minister in charge of the budget.
The OFIMER is equipped with a board of management made up of 42 members. It gathers with the administration the partners of the die with parity between the production and the distribution. Each occupational class of the die of fishing, the sectors of the aquiculture and the shellfish farming are represented there.

Department of the news of markets (SNM), Directorate of the economic policies and international (DPEI) - Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries

French Portal for Agriculture and Fish - France portal for agriculture and fisheries.

Département des Pêches de l'Organisation des Nations Unis pour l'Alimentation et l'Agriculture

Aquaculture Recherche : Fiches mensuelles d'information sur les résultats de recherche en pisciculture, destinées aux professionnelles du secteur piscicole.

An international bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean - In the Mediterranean, the main demersal fisheries are localized on narrow continental shelves along the coasts. Experiences during the last decades in this area have shown that it was difficult to obtain a global estimate of the demersal resources from fishing activity, especially due to the very large dispersion of the landing places, the important diversity of the species caught and the scarceness of reliable statistics. This situation has induced different European Union States to conduct national programmes for the assessment of these resources from repetitive trawl surveys. A lot of the demersal resources in the Mediterranean are considered as fully or over-exploited.

Some fish species found in Mediterranean

Latin name

Citharus linguatula

Eutrigla gurnardus

Helicolenus dactylopterus

Lepidorhombus boscii

Lophius budegassa

Lophius piscatorius

Merluccius merluccius

Micromesistius potassou

Mullus barbatus

Mullus surmuletus

Pagellus acarne

Pagellus bogaraveo

Pagellus erythrinus

Pagrus pagrus

Phycis blenoides

Raja clavata

Solea vulgaris

Spicara flexuosa

Trachurus mediterraneus

Trachurus trachurus

Trisopterus min. capelanus

Zeus faber

Aristaeomorpha foliacea

Aristeus antennatus

Nephrops norvegicus

Parapenaeus longirostris

Eledone cirrhosa

Eledone moschata

Illex coindetti

Loligo vulgaris

Octopus vulgaris

Sepia oficinalis

Federation of European Aquaculture Producers - The Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (FEAP) is an international organisation that is composed of the National Aquaculture Associations of European countries. The basic aims of the Federation are: * to develop and establish a common policy on questions relating to the production and the commercialisation of aquaculture species are reared professionally. * to make known to the appropriate authorities the common policies envisaged above.