Author: sabrina PALMIERI

[gallery size="medium" ids="3501,3502,3503,3504,3505,3506,3507,3508,3509,3510"] Since April 2015, 4 000 post-larvae from 23 different species has been collected by local fishermen of Marseille, Cassis and La Ciotat. After 4 months of breeding, a first restocking operation has been carried out last week in La Ciotat. Here are the pictures! You can also...

[gallery size="large" columns="2" ids="4243,4244"] New Biohut? Where are we? What is this shape? What is this little fish? More information soon...

Ecocean team based in Marseille has the pleasure to show you his Epinephelus marginatus post-larvae that has been captured using a CARE net along with 9 fellow groupers! Grouper is an emblematic species of the Mediterranean sea. It got almost extinct due to overfishing and...

[gallery ids="4236,4228,4229,4230,4231,4232,4233,4234,4235,4237,4238"]   The RESPIRE monitoring campaign of June just ended! This fish recruitment monitoring network is deployed in 23 Mediterranean ports and consist in a census of post-larvae presence in harbors. The monitoring is lead on seawall and Biohut®. Here is a small selection of photos,...

[gallery ids="4219,4220,4221,4222,4223,4224"] Following the installation of 57 Biohut in Port Vendres and 46 at the port of Carnon, it is the turn of Bouzigues to be equipped with 22 modules! These projects will be accompanied by an environmental monitoring and education tools with the seeting up of...

[gallery ids="4211,4212,4213,4214,4215"] *90 Biohut® will be installed shortly in the Port Vauban of Antibes. Our technical manager Rémy Dubas went on site tracking to make a "pre-diagnosis", essential before any Biohut® installation. In order to choose the best locations, docks and pontoons were inspected by snorkling and cycling!...

Ecocean attended the AIVP days in Dublin from 28 to 30 May on the theme "Working Waterfront: a City-Port mix in progress". An opportunity to meet managers from major international ports and promote integrated consideration of biodiversity issues in port development. CEO Gilles Lecaillon made a talk on the “Green...

The financial daily La Tribune - Objectif Languedoc Roussillon published an article about Ecocean after an interview with the founder Gilles Lecaillon: We are in an active phase of commercialisation as the Nappex project (artificial nurseries for exemplary ports) in 2013-2014 showed the scientific interest of Biohuts. [...

The LANDEAU project consists in the study and ecological restoration of the lagoon of Brusc. It is in this context that the Paul Ricard Oceanographic Institute, in partnership with the Brusc fishermen prudhommie, collected fish post-larvae around the Isle of Embiez (in Six-Fours-Les-Plages, Var) for 6 months. In...