Alain Le Sann – L’Encre de Mer

Alain Le Sann – in GB

Alain Le Sann is the founder of the international festival Fishermen of the world : why to have created this festival, and why your presence at Slow Fish in Terra Madre ?

« By creating the festival, we wanted to restore the image of the fishermen which is not the one that we often give and we especially wanted to refocus the debate of the fishing on the fishermen, to leave the human aspect, rather than that of the resource, even if there are problems of resources… And what interested me in Slow Fish is that this approach was truly privileged in all the debates, with a strong presence of representatives of small scale fishermen, and we centered well the debate on this question  : How can the fishermen take in hand their fate? Because at first the question of the fishing is not the one of the future of this common resource, but how the fishermen are going to share it in a fair way. If we take the problem only under the environmental aspect, the conservation of the sea or other, which is a necessity, we are going to make press the responsibility of this restoration of the environment on the very sailors. And when we make it, it is always the weakest which carry the weight of this restoration : we see it when we set up marine areas protected without integrating this human size, the consequences for people. Continuer la lecture →