Synthèse des pêcheries 2000 - Flotte Mer du Nord, Manche, Atlantique

This summary of the French fisheries of the North Sea/English Channel/Atlantic for the year 2000 is done in the context of the programme "Halieutic Information Systems" that has as its goal the creation of a permanent and operational observatory of fishing. It brings together several types of data: statistical data of administrative origin, data from the IFREMER pollsters network, economic data and data acquired during sea campaigns. This first annual summary of French fisheries, meant for all actors in the fishing industry (from research to professionals and managers) and the general public, is limited to the Atlantic coast. The first part of this document contains an overall description of the English Channel Atlantic fleet, that is, all trades included. It makes it possible to highlight, overall and by programme region, the situation of the fleet in 2000 as well as its evolution since 1983. The second part takes into account the trade's criteria (the "device-species" pair) to propose a description of the English Channel Atlantic fleet by device and by major trade. Beforehand, the trades are organised into a hierarchy according to their relative size in percentage of total activity. The third part proposes a description of English Channel Atlantic's large fleets. Beyond the description of each trade considered in an isolated way, a structured view of the English Channel Atlantic fishing fleet can be obtained by highlighting the most frequent combinations of trades during the year. The fleet is subdivided into flotillas that have similar fishing strategies. This classification of ships by flotilla allows us to better understand the structure of a fleet that, at first sight, seems very heterogeneous. The fourth part describes the economic results of these flotillas based on a representative sampling of close to 14% of the English Channel Atlantic fleet. This representativeness both from the point of view of the ships' characteristics of size and their geographical location at the level of each flotilla constitutes the originality of this exercise. The economic indicators introduced are at the same time monetary indicators of the production averages implemented in this business sector as well as of the performance generated by their implementation. These indicators are also captured at the level of pertinent subgroups from a point of view of the levels of invested capital and of work undertaken within each flotilla. These economic data on the flotillas must be considered in the specific economic and socio-professional contexts that are the subject of a quick analysis in the last part of this document. They also rely on a certain number of methodological tools and definitions presented at the end of the document.