Shellfish farming: the CRCM does not disarm and clarifies its list of grievances

Les conchyliculteurs du bassin de Thau et de Méditerranée poussent leurs revendications et exigent cette fois des réponses rapides. Midi Libre – Jean-Michel Mart

Productions à sécuriser, zones à terre à protéger, réglementations à revoir et à harmoniser… : le Comité régional de conchyliculture de Méditerranée affiche ses revendications. Et demande désormais des réponses rapides.

Seven pages of clear and precise demands, most of which have already been relayed for years and again, in vain, to the Secretary of State for the Sea last September. The Mediterranean Regional Shellfish Committee (CRCM) is stepping up to the plate with a string of requests. The first concerns "the protection of shellfish production areas".

The CRCM requires in particular "really efficient sanitation networks", "real transparency on dysfunctions", the application of the polluter principle payer and "systematic compensation for economic damage".

Double standards ?

It calls for a review of town planning rules in dedicated shellfish farming areas and the protection of the shellfish farming vocation of land areas "in order to fight against the change of destination and cabanization&quot ;. The Committee advocates "harmonization in the application of European and national regulations". " Why the Mediterranean and in particular the Hérault are subject to rules applied by the State services that the other French production areas are not subject to ? Why the State services have, here , different requirements without pedagogy ?", questions the CRCM.

The Regional Shellfish Committee also points out the regulatory burdens. "It is high time to reform maritime administration. We deplore and suffer the inconsistency of the administration on certain subjects and the obvious absence of common sense and pragmatism", denounces the CRCM, which also mentions "unfair treatment of farmers of the sea with farmers of the land". And who, now insistently, wants answers.

Meeting at the DDTM, in Sète

This catalog of demands comes at a time when shellfish farmers have joined the national agricultural protest movement and demonstrated in Montpellier last Friday.

This Wednesday afternoon, they were also meeting in the premises of the Departmental Directorate of Territories and the Sea (DDTM) of Hérault, quai Maillol, in Sète, to discuss particularly issues related to town planning, in the presence of the Water Police and the Interregional Directorate of the Mediterranean Sea (Dirm), the supervisory body of the CRCM.

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