The Coronavirus food crisis to come!

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Coronavirus: French fishing divided by five

AFP • 03 / 04 / 2020

French fishermen, caught between the drop in demand and the fears of contamination linked to the new coronavirus, reduced by five the quantity of fish caught at the end of March, according to a note from FranceAgriMer which AFP learned about Friday.
The week of March 23 to 39, 146 ships landed 612 tonnes of seafood, against 2.947 tonnes per 495 ships on average in 2018 and 2019, in the same period, according to figures established by the para-public organization .

At the same time, around 900 tonnes of seafood were sold in the tide halls, a decrease of 69% compared to the previous week and 83% compared to the same week on average over the previous three years. .

After a fall in prices at the start of the health crisis, "this contraction in supply" made it possible to bring prices back to the average of past years and to limit unsold goods, indicates FranceAgriMer, which takes its figures from the management of fisheries, department of the Ministry of Agriculture.

In Brittany, "the contributions are mainly due to coastal fishing" (only the port of Lorient was supplied with species from deep-sea fishing, ling, saithe and monkfish), underlines the note from FranceAgriMer, "the situation being more balanced in the Hauts-de-France ", with major contributions to Boulogne in saithe and whiting, complementing the deliveries of scallops, squid and sole from coastal fishing.

The closure of restaurants deprived the French fishery of 50% of internal consumption in France, and caused a drop in prices which led an immense majority of crews to stay at the dock.

France said Thursday it had obtained the green light from the European Commission to finance temporary stops in fishing activities.

This proposal must now be submitted and adopted by the Council and by the European Parliament.

French fishermen are also negotiating with the Ministry of Labor for the possibility of resorting to partial unemployment. The idea would be that short-time working funds crews and that temporary stops finance companies, hoping that the two schemes will be compatible.

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[GuyGadebois]

At least that will allow an obligatory Spring truce, and the fish resource will only increase. It's good for my can, it's good for the planet <<< Cynicism! (cotton wool?)

[Macro]

Hey Macro if you already had your big mouth and your franc spoken at the time ... That does not surprise me !!
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I was a 10 year old kid in summer camp ... we had to spend 1 month confined to the premises ... each trip to the beach (a submarine base ...) we did it under escort of military .... They may have had the colonavirus ... Anyway, I understood them ... I never set foot there again ... And really only returned under torture ... That said. .. it seems to be great in movies and reports ...

That said they have 8720 km2 of agricultural area ... for 340 inhabitants .. there is no reason it must largely pass for food self-sufficiency ...

[Christophe]

No food shortage to fear in France and in Europe. Closing the borders just risks impacting the importing countries and the islands. Except panic effect on certain short-term foodstuffs.
Like more soap on the shelves of the nearby convenience store.

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[Christophe]

No risk of shortage?

[Macro]

food shortage = less obesity = less death ... With the reduction of pollution, road accidents, the future baby boom containment ... Finally this coronavirus is a blessing for the increase of the population .. .

[Grelinette]

food shortage = less obesity = less death ... With the reduction of pollution, road accidents, the future baby boom containment ... Finally this coronavirus is a blessing for the increase of the population .. .

Well no! ... the coronavirus, it especially decreases the population of seniors! ...

[GuyGadebois]

food shortage = less obesity = less death ... With the reduction of pollution, road accidents, the future baby boom containment ... Finally this coronavirus is a blessing for the increase of the population .. .

Well no! ... the coronavirus, it especially decreases the population of seniors! ...

No, but Macro he's happy: Fewer homeless people, fewer fat people, fewer Romanians, fewer immigrants, fewer old people, fewer neurons, he runs his mower, his petroleum devices (quad & co), cuts everything, kills everything with his relicates of shit poisons and he flaunts, bombs his chest, he is also proud, among other things, to piss off his neighbors treated as ailments, with his small arms, his big mouth, his uninhibited fascism, his 50 hours of Stakhanovism and I say it before he does it: he fucks us all, me first.

[Macro]

food shortage = less obesity = less death ... With the reduction of pollution, road accidents, the future baby boom containment ... Finally this coronavirus is a blessing for the increase of the population .. .

Well no! ... the coronavirus, it especially decreases the population of seniors! ...

hello Grelinette natural increase is the delta between births and deaths ... it does not take into account the age of the deceased ...

Well we will see what the future tells us ... But it is a safe bet that we will not lose in population of the planet ... in Western circles where the population has an average age high enough we may be seeing a hole in 3 or 4 months, once mother nature has pruned the old branches they will be replaced by young shoots in 9 to 10 months .... There may not be that beautiful (well yes during confinement the fathers will have climbed on the girls, the brothers on the sisters, the sons on the mothers ...).

[Ahmed]

A virus that attacks older people does not change demography very much: it only changes the age pyramid a little and nothing about reproductive dynamics ...
To have a strongly negative impact, a virus specifically targeting the very young female population (16-25 years old) would be required. I place myself here from a theoretical point of view which only takes into account the purely biological aspect and it is obvious that cultural factors complicate matters ...
On the contrary, the theoretically most favorable combination for demographic expansion would be a ratio of one man for five women (that will make more than one dream!).