Fishing boats over 8 m can resume fishing in the Bay of Biscay. Fishermen, like all professions linked to fishing, are looking gloomy despite the end of this long and unprecedented one-month break.

“At Guil’, the entire sector was faced with a real drop in activity. But combined with the fishing crisis in general, it is still too early to draw up figures,” says a shipowner, who prefers, like many professionals here, to remain anonymous.