Sarkozy, the fishermen and the fuel crisis

[Christine]

Researchers from the University of British Columbia (Canada) have published a report on the comparison between industrial fishing and artisanal fishing.

According to them, the development of artisanal fishing at the expense of industrial fishing would make it possible to catch as many fish for human food but with much less consumption of oil, less subsidies, more jobs and less destruction for the food industry. 'environment.

Below, a summary table of their findings on the current situation:


For those who do not read English: the 1st column concerns industrial fishing, the second column artisanal fishing. For the rest, the icons should suffice.

Edifying, isn't it?

For further : http://www.seaaroundus.org/News/UBCPressRelease.pdf

[bham]

Yes indeed surprising, I almost doubt it!

[Christophe]

I find it hard to understand and believe the penultimate line ...

Generally the bigger it is, the more energy efficient it is!

It's like saying that a car consumes less than a truck to move the same payload.

The reality is around 30 to 50L / 100 per ton for a loaded car and 1L / 100 per ton for a loaded truck ...

[sam17]

I seem to have seen the same type of comparison between agricultural production on an industrial scale (American style) and agricultural production in a more artisanal form.

In any case, that doesn't surprise me at all.

For fuel consumption we must not forget that if the boats are bigger, the nets they drag too !!

Not to mention that industrial fishing boats are veritable floating factories with all that this implies in terms of energy consumption.

I think that the ratio of power dedicated to transporting and fishing the fish and power dedicated to moving the boat and all the packaging plant that goes with it is favorable to small artisanal boats.

In any case, it is not new to see that the application of industrial methods on an activity related to a natural environment is an environmental disaster ...

[Former Oceano]

The larger the boats, the further they go from their home port. Large fishing fleets go thousands of nautical miles from home port. For example, we will find a Japanese boat in the Mediterranean.

Small ships move away much less. This therefore affects fuel consumption.

[Pierre-Yves]

interested in the work of the University of British Columbia, I wanted to download the announced file:
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/download/

but there is nothing more to download ...

would anyone have had a better chance than me?

This study interests me because it seems to give overall figures. It is well known that some industrial pelagics are real fish suckers and leave nothing behind.

[bham]

Hi Pierre-Yves.
http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/r ... 8-109.html

An illustration comparing small- and large-scale fisheries is available at Sea Around Us.

which refers to Christine's link http://www.seaaroundus.org/News.htm