FRANCE-AQUACULTURE-FOOD-ENVIRONMENT

TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY EMMANUELLE MICHEL Jean-Sebastien Bruant, director of the Douhet marine farm, works on November 15, 2014, in La Bree-les-Bains, on the Oleron island off the western French coast, in a sterile laboratory where algae is cultivated to feed zooplankton which is used as food for fingerlings hatched in the farm. 40 million bream fingerlings hatch each year in the Douhet marine farm, 90 of which percent are exported to grow in countries of the Mediterranean basin. The fish mature in Greece, Turkey or Spain and are sold back to France, which imports 80 percent of its consumption of marine products produced in farms. AFP PHOTO / XAVIER LEOTY Jean-Sebastien Bunting, director of the marine farm Douhet on Oleron island, increases the plankton for breeding bream. AFP PHOTO / XAVIER LEOTY (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY / AFP) (Photo by XAVIER LEOTY/AFP via Getty Images)