A policy to protect the maritime domain

• Creation of a large Ministry of the Sea
• Develop the use of algae to replace plastic in particular
• Develop ecological seaweed farming – Develop blue tourism that respects nature
• Increase the proportion of protected land and sea areas to 30%, compared with 20% and 23% respectively today.
• Work towards the development of small-scale fishing; strengthen the shipbuilding industry
• Develop offshore tidal turbines in consultation with fishermen.
• Create a treaty to protect the seabed from exploitation

Building a genuine maritime strategy for our country

• Ambitious and sustainable blue growth
• Promote our formidable assets, while respecting the environment and biodiversity. The Overseas
• Territories will be the figurehead.
• Developing our maritime potential in the long term
• Rethinking the maritime issue in France

 Develop research into the ocean environment and marine biodiversity.

• Develop energy from the sea (swell, thermal difference between the surface and the deep sea, etc.).

• Develop research into the ocean environment and marine biodiversity.

• Invest in marine energy.

A major Ministry of the Sea

• Restore the place of the French Overseas Territories by creating a “large State Ministry for the Sea and Overseas Territories”.
• Strengthen the protection of maritime spaces, notably by fighting against “drug trafficking” and “illegal immigration networks”.
• Freeze all offshore wind turbine projects and develop deep-sea fishing and small-scale fishing, “while respecting the environment and biodiversity”.
• Order new military equipment to deal with threats – Protect biodiversity
• Fight against illegal fishing, poaching, trafficking, uncontrolled pollution or invasive species”.

 Renew France’s maritime ambition

• Prohibit all new wind turbine construction projects on land and at sea” and “freeze current offshore wind projects

• Protect and develop our maritime areas.

• Support fishing and marine farming to achieve self-sufficiency

• Provide the means for the blue economy to reach its full potential.

Developing marine renewable energy

• Using the movement of the tides and currents” to get away from nuclear power.
• Develop marine renewable energies,
• Nationalise the marine energy branch of Alstom and the wind energy branch of Areva.
• Create an “international law of marine biodiversity”.
• Implement a moratorium on deep sea mining,
• Eradicate dangerous fishing techniques, such as electric fishing.
• Creation of a permanent underwater station: the first permanent underwater station on the model of the international space station”.

Research to tackle rising sea levels

• Invest in the development of technological and ecological solutions to deal with rising sea levels (financed by a “1% oceans” levy on companies’ advertising budgets for waste prevention in maritime areas)
• Strengthen the legal arsenal against the dumping of illegal waste.
• Create a “Ministry of Climate, Biodiversity and the Economy”, and include in the Constitution “the fight against global warming and biodiversity loss”.
• Recognition of an “international criminal court” to judge crimes and violations of the environment and biodiversity;
• Create a 100% sustainable fisheries and aquaculture public policy by 2030, encouraging the consumption of local and sustainable fisheries products”.

• Fighting global warming and saving the sea
• Develop a concerted and planned policy on a global scale
• Meet the needs of the greatest number of people, while preserving the environment.

Stop seabed mining

• Prohibit seabed mining in the entire French exclusive economic zone (over 11 million km²).
• Sanctuary 30% of our maritime areas on a global scale, particularly in Antarctica, 10% will be under full protection in each territory, maritime façade and ultramarine basin
• Take care of all living things, preserve and repair them
• Guarantee sustainable fishing, limit the quantities of fish caught and put an end to techniques that “destroy marine fauna”. Objective of 40% of protected areas by 2030 on land

Zero plastic target

• Ensure that 10% of the national maritime territory is “under strong protection within 20 years
• Agreement by Mediterranean coastal countries to “eradicate plastic waste at sea”.
• The creation of no-spill zones could be included in local urban plans. “The interests of fishermen will be protected

A “zero waste” programme

• Creation of a true national maritime strategy.
• Launch a 10-year zero waste programme for the French oceans.
• Launch a major plan to combat plastic pollution of the oceans and a Mediterranean plan, based on the Dupont-Aignan/Ramlati Ali parliamentary report on ocean pollution.

• No more than 10% of the territory to be developed and 10% to be classified as nature reserves
• Meet social and ecological requirements
• Care for human beings and all living things