Sad spectacle this Sunday, November 5, on the beaches of Fouras. The Domingos storm which swept the Charente coast during the night from Saturday to Sunday brought back thousands of plastic cups used to catch young oysters.
Very exposed to the winds from Domingos, the southern and Esperance beaches of the small seaside resort were particularly affected…
Sad spectacle this Sunday, November 5, on the beaches of Fouras. The Domingos storm which swept the Charente coast during the night from Saturday to Sunday brought back thousands of plastic cups used to catch young oysters.
Very exposed to the winds from Domingos, the southern and Esperance beaches of the small seaside resort were particularly affected. Everywhere, there were hundreds, certainly several thousand, orange slices, brown ones, white ones, on the sand, in the recesses of the rocks, at the foot of the squares which so often serve as postcards. Late Sunday afternoon, in the light of a magnificent setting sun, the beautiful painting looked like a trash can.
Plastic collectors, from the catchment areas of the Charente estuary, washed up on the south beach in Fouras.
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Around Madame Island
The collectors which ran aground came from oyster beds and more precisely from spat tables, widely distributed at the start of the Charente estuary, off the coast of Port-des-Barques and all around Île Madame, the one of the largest collection centers in France. The swell and winds that hit caused the oyster farming equipment to drift towards the beaches of the peninsula located just opposite, 4 kilometers as the crow flies. “The tables on which the collectors are installed must have capsized,” confirms Michel Grasset, a former breeder from Port-des-Barques.
In the past, baby oysters clung to stones, slates or shells. Systems which have been gradually abandoned since the 1980s in favor of plastic washers, which are lighter to install in the open sea. At the start of the week, due to the tidal coefficients, the oyster farmers of Charente-Maritime – busy sell their oysters in preparation for the holidays – were still unaware of the damage caused by Domingos to their oyster beds.
But given the quantity of oyster shells which have soiled the beaches of Fouras, we say that the damage will be significant. On Sunday, the reality of plastic pollution, much of which had returned to the ocean at the next tide, was also evident to walkers.
2023-11-07 23:24:56
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