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Utah Beach

Administrative Port: Manche
County: Basse-Normandie

Utah Beach is the name of one of the five landing beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944. As being the beach further west of the areas where the Allied landed and the only one located on the northeast coast of the Cotentin peninsula, west of the estuary of the Vire (the other four are located on the coast of Calvados), Utah Beach stretches from Sainte-Marie-du-Mont Quinéville until about 5 km long, with the main area of ​​assault near Varreville.[1]


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Background information
Fishing Fleet Vessel type 1 Vessel type 1::5
Fishing Fleet Vessel type 2 Vessel type 2::0
Fishing Fleet Vessel type 3 Vessel type 3::0
Fishing Fleet Vessels total Vessels total::5 [2]
Landings Total Landings (tonnes) Demersal (tonnes) Landings Demersal::
Landings Total Landings (tonnes) Pelagic (tonnes) Landings Pelagic::
Landings Total Landings (tonnes) Shellfish (tonnes) Landings shellfish::
Landings Total Landings (tonnes) Main species (tonnes) Main species::
Landings Total Landings (tonnes) All species (tonnes) Landings all species::
Landings Values Demersal Value demersal::
Landings Values Pelagic Value pelagic::
Landings Values Shellfish Value shellfish::
Landings Values All species Value all species::
Landings Number of fishermen Number of fishermen (Regular) Fishermen regular::
Landings Number of fishermen Number of fishermen (Part-time) Fishermen part-time::
Landings Number of fishermen Number of fishermen Total Fishermen total::
Landings Major fish species Major fish species::
Landings Landing points Landing points::
Landings Location of auctions Location auctions::
Governance and organisation Governance Governance::
Governance and organisation FLAG FLAG::
Governance and organisation Location of fishermen's organisations [[Location of fishermen's organisations::CRPMEM de Haute Normandie, 26, Quai Galliéni 76200 DIEPPE

CRPMEM du Nord/Pas de Calais/Picardie, 12, rue Solférino 62200 BOULOGNE-SUR-MER]]

Branding Brand labels Brand labels::
Fish as food Fish selling Fish selling::
Fish as food Fish processing Fish processing::
Fish as food Restaurants/hotels Restaurants::
Tourism & Education Tourism & Fishing Tourism&Fishing::
Tourism & Education Festivals Festivals::
Tourism & Education Fishing museums Fishing museums::
Tourism & Education Aquariums Aquariums::
Tourism & Education Monuments Monuments::
Tourism&Education Fishing training School Fishing training school::


Vessel type 1= Coastal fishing vessels: Vessels which spend more than 75% of their time in the 12 nm zone.
Vessel type 2= Coastal/high sea vessels: Fishing vessels that fish 25% -75% of their time in the 12 nm zone.
Vessel type 3= High sea vessels: vessels that fish more than 75% of their time outside the coastal zone. These vessels fish offshore the French coast but are in some cases active in the coastal zone of other countries.[3]

References

  1. ↑ http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Beach
  2. ↑ Data from 2011. Source: Ifremer
  3. ↑ Leblond, E., Daures, F., Leonardi, S., Merrien, C., Demaneche, S., Le Blond, S., Berthou, P.L., Pitel-Roudau, M., Macher, C., Lespagnol, P., Le Grand, C., Le Blond, S. (2013). Synthèse des flottilles de pêche 2011, flotte de Mer du Nord - Manche – Atlantique, flotte de Méditerranée dans le cadre Réalisation du projet "Système d'Informations Halieutiques" de l'Ifremer. Edition IFREMER Brest. p.289.