Organisation of shrimp marketing in Bir Guendouz

The local head of the National Fisheries Office in Bir Guendouz has just proceeded with an innovation in the field of shrimp capture and marketing. This innovation, which aims at the sustainability of the species, has been welcomed with great satisfaction by professionals in the sector. It consists of marketing the quantities of shrimp that have reached a certain size denoting maturity and throwing the juveniles back into the sea. This operation, which was applied during the course of last week, concerned a quantity of 8 tonnes which were sold at the auction. Which is, in itself, unprecedented. Because until then, the fishmongers in the Bir Guendouz hall had never known or applied this marketing system. Expressing his joy, one of the fishmongers indicated to us that since he has been practising this trade in the Bir Guendouz hall, he has never achieved such sales, because, he says, this…