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My name is Gwen Pennarun and we are in the harbour at St. Marine
I've been fishing for seabass for almost 30 years,
I've chosen the same job my father; as a child, I would often accompany him.
Right from the start I was passionate about the job
I started out with my father at first, then decided to go it alone
I discovered a sense of freedom with this job. It's not as true today, but before, you could work as you pleased,
stop for a fortnight or three weeks, but you knew you could always catch up.
Today things have changed a bit. You need to work when the fish is there, and when there is fish there, you have to go.
I've been the president of the association for eight or ten years,
an association which promotes line-caught seabass
there was strong competition from farmed seabass and because of this the prices plummeted.
So we decided to label the fish
to differentiate between trawler-caught, net-caught, line- caught and farmed seabass
When I finish fishing for the day, I label my fish. This allows people to tell them apart, either in the restaurants or the fish markets
Most of my fish goes to restaurants, who use this image to their advantage and the rest goes to the fish markets.
We decided to start up this organisation for small scale fisheries
because we realised that all along the coast, whatever their methods, the smaller boats had pretty much the same problems:
a lack of representation at regional committee level,
being ignored by these institutions.
We're spread out all along the coast and that leaves us a little isolated and we're having a hard time getting representation
I think that small scall fishing has the right to exist
We've noticed that particularly in the last two or three years, small scale fishing boats have been disappearing all along the coast
Because they're having a hard time accessing these resources, either because quotas have been cut
or because the industiral boats' fishing zones are expanding, getting closer to the coast.