Lack of consultation, disruption of the ecosystem, exclusion of fishing areas, economic problems… The fishermen are very worried about the establishment of future offshore wind farms in the French maritime environment. So far, not a single one of the ten projects that are planned along the French coast - some for more than ten years - has seen the light of day. Among them, that of Dieppe-Le Tréport concentrates the strongest opposition of an entire profession, and well beyond, which has multiplied legal remedies and punitive actions. The latest event: around fifteen trawlers, a little over a week ago, dropped projectiles on a hydrographic vessel that came to explore the seabed as part of this project dating back a dozen years.
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"From the start, the choice of the area to install the wind turbines was not the right one ," recalls Dimittri Rogoff, president of the National Fisheries Committee of Normandy, a region which brings together the largest number of
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