Fragments of memory and Unicorn September (Jephan de Villiers 1994)
I had just finished my article entitled CAPO was decided that a stroll. Sponge in one hand, our makhila in the other, we went. Along the way, Alter, always curious, wanted to know what was in my next article. He brushes a little tangled in my delusions of martial arts and the association that counts the dishes, but the first track, he gave my explanation for bullshit triumphantly brandishing a mystery object. We found three or four, before joining our balcony the estuary for the ritual reading, now devoted to "the Proetta objest" I speak to you again soon.
Then, it was still beautiful, we decided to join the next track, to lengthen a little walk. In return, a man bent over the foreshore, a black bucket in hand, met regularly with his utensil walking slowly.
- What's picks? capsules?
- No, there is not much ...
- You're not going to tell me he cleans the beach?
-?
- Good evening sir, you reap the egg capsules of line?
-?? Ah! you know?
- Actually from today. Before, we thought it was algae, but a lady met her this morning and whose son has with his teacher to pick them up at Saint Palais Meschers, we learned this morning that it was the egg envelopes skate.
- Ah, this must be the mother of one of my students.
- So you're part of the CAPO!
- You know, too?
- Yeah, it took us well we read about these awards mermaid!
Memoirs ocean (Jephan de Villiers 2000)
And this delicious result of sixty-eighters nostalgia, am an environmentalist, taking the bio-diversity, sporting a beard that made him look stern Alter , a braid that fell down to below the belly and a sailor cap, red is more flamboyant, we learned even more than Google and the APEC meeting. He comes from Saint Palais collect capsules Beach Suzac by far the most numerous and most diverse site. Fascinated by his subject, he was unbeatable, showed us the different species identified in the bucket, which already contained a hundred capsules. It is part of the association that promotes the collection program CAPO and we said, any flattery aside, the site of Suzac is probably the place of France, not of the world where you find most egg envelopes. Last year, second year of regular collection, the association between harvested and Talmont Saint Palais approximately 23,000 capsules, about 20 000 on the only beach Suzac. In 2010, the bulk of the harvest was done in two peaks, one in November-December and another in April. But this year, helping harsh winter, the shape of the curve has changed much less waste in December, but an amazing month of February 2011: 19,000 capsules already on the coast royanaise. Our instructor was laughing out loud by telling the dismay of fellow Bretons at the outing in the Iroise Sea: 325 capsules for all broth. The following weekend to Suzac, they found nearly 4000.
Why such a concentration there? It is not yet able to explain even if assumptions are made: the presence of the wreck of Condé just opposite the beach probably allows the lines to spawn at ease and with generosity. The turbidity of the water allows them free likely to be even more comfortable in their draft reproduction.Si you add to it only because of the many shipwrecks that litter the estuary at this point, there is no practical trawling, and the place is decorated with a deep fossse about thirty meters which allows the ski muscular waters of the ocean, it could in all these arguments find some reasons for this exceptional stand supposed rays Freya.
It then invited us to come in spring, visit the exhibition that the association will organize at Royan on the capsules, rays and various forms of fisheries traditionally used estuary. A Belgian artist must, he says, to present his compositions that use these envelopes black feedstock.
Metamorphoses nocturnes (Jephan de Villiers 2001)
Jephan de Villiers works exclusively with natural materials, bark, branches, empty shells. His work, which takes much of the land-art than painting or sculpture, organized around themes
dreamlike, enchanting securities. To get the egg cases of skates he has a few songs, he uses corresponding to a New Yorker who harvest it in Long Island. He has a second home side Mirambeau, and our "sailor" bearded already amused surprise that he would the next day when he would bring him the 4000 already sorted shells piled up in his chest.
Because once harvested shells, begins a real painstaking task, identification, counting, recording of the state, from the "new" to the most rugged, flexible and necessarily from an earlier spawning in through the rating of those who were damaged by predators, shellfish or fish. These are statistical summaries are particularly rich site of Suzac, which will increase awareness and thus better defend the lines that inevitably recur in our waters.
- But then the line is a common fish here?
- just not that much. We find little in the markets because people prefer it the sole or lean. Yet if one believes the inventory drawn up in the early eighteenth century by the fisheries inspector Le Masson Park, the line was already listed and thriving on our shores in 1720. Exciting this inventory, because the inspector in question was able to be admitted so that fishermen could even identify prohibited techniques, also still in use today!
Sitting at the foot sticks wind I dreamed of a child who was the forest on his back (detail)
Always wonderful to meet fans, especially when they are, as our interlocutor, cultivated and learned, the term is not too strong. But while it is competent, the harvester capsules Saint Palais never find the real reason accumulation of these shells on the beach of black Suzac. Reason that I deliver under the seal of secrecy, of course! Everyone knows that is a marker Meschers perennial sirens of all kinds, is found for all fishermen squares that maintain their barracks at great expense, just for the pleasure of catching one from time to time in their nets . However, these sirens are carefree and very expensive: they frequently misplace their fellowships in the dark waters of the estuary. When it is on our beaches, they find them quickly, but when the tides and current meddle, scholarships escape to the following ranges: it and to Suzac, located at the boundary between St. George and Meschers accumulate to the delight of environmentalists of all stripes these little mysterious black bags. Empty, unfortunately, have since spent all our pretty.
The site explored by Mr. capoera
The day of our trip: admit there's something strange in the behavior of our sirens
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