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Bordeaux: Oh! Matelot, the app that allows you to buy fish directly from fishermen

2021-04-13T07:22:47.622Z


The founders of the Oh! Sailor survey the coasts of Aquitaine to buy local fish from small boats, at fixed prices.


"The consumer finds that he pays too much for fish and the fisherman sells at too low a price, we wanted to find a happy medium"

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summarizes Yann Le Guen who has just launched the Oh! Mobile application!

Sailor to sell baskets of fresh fish to Bordelais (Gironde).

A former wholesale buyer of fish, he wanted to promote more local fishing - “I used to buy farmed fish from Iceland, Norway or Scotland ... hake, sea bream or mullet.

"- and more respectful:" We only work with boats of less than 12 meters which fish either with a net or with a line, nothing to do with trawls which scrape the seabed!

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"It allowed us to continue working"

With his partner, Aymeric Richard, they crisscross the Atlantic coast, from Saint-Jean-de-Luz to La Rochelle via the Gironde estuary or the Arcachon basin to fill baskets with fish sold individually. or by subscription.

"Fishing is very uncertain depending on the weather, the season, the quotas but by working with fishermen from different areas, we can adapt", specifies

Yann Le Guen.

That day, they came to acquire around thirty hake in Capbreton in the Landes.

“They are bought at fixed prices whereas when we sell the fish at the auction, we have to pay operating and transport taxes and it is often bought at a lower price depending on supply and demand”

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explains Allison, dockside saleswoman for the boat Ahaldena.

Its owner, Patrick Courtiaud, agrees: “Everyone takes their margin, from the fishmonger who buys at auction to the fishmonger, and in the end the consumer pays more.

The short circuit allows us to control prices.

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A fisherman in Lège-Cap-Ferret, Samuel Bouteilh also sells fish via the app: “After the restaurants closed, we began to sell more at retail, via the AMAPs or via the app, which allowed us to continue working, ”he rejoices.

Source: leparis

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