From Nice, where he is attending the United Nations Ocean Conference, the President of the Country announced reforms aimed at strengthening the protection of our maritime domain by establishing new protected areas and regulated fishing zones, covering 20% of our EEZ. A 220,000 km² territorial park reserved for traditional fishing will also be created west of the Society Islands, another 650,000 km² in the Gambier Islands as a “sanctuary for marine life.”
It was from Nice, via videoconference, that President Moetai Brotherson held an extraordinary and decentralized Council of Ministers this Friday morning. A somewhat unusual format where the press and fishing stakeholders were invited to listen to the government's announcements on how it wishes to evolve the management of our Exclusive Economic Zone. An EEZ which, as he pointed out, represents half of France's maritime surface area with its more than 5 million km2.
