In Arcachon
This Thursday morning, under a clear blue sky, three gendarmes from the nautical brigade embark on their speedboat, moored in the port of Arcachon (Gironde).
The team of Chief Warrant Officer Jérôme Goussard sails every day of the year but has been scrutinizing the oyster beds for the past three months.
“The flights are spread over the whole year, but with the approach of the holidays and until December 31, we are stepping up surveillance,”
explains Chief Warrant Officer Goussard.
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The year 2021 turned out to be
“calm”
: a ton of oysters stolen from the Arcachon basin and six complaints lodged with the gendarmerie.
Two hundred kilometers away, in Charente-Maritime, local gendarmes observe thefts of 5 to 10 tonnes of oysters each year.
The Arcachon nautical brigade seeks above all to avoid “big thefts
”
.
In 2017, an oyster farmer from Gujan-Mestras, a few kilometers from Arcachon, was looted, during a tide, 7 tonnes of oysters in parks located in Cap-Ferret.
The following year, a ...
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