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French Guiana (France): House flags of shipping companies

Last modified: 2010-06-11 by ivan sache
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Unifipêche

[Flag of Unifipeche]

House flag of Unifipêche - Image by Ivan Sache, 25 January 2010

Unifipêche owns a fleet of 24 ships specialized in the fishing and deep-freezing of tropical wild shrimps (Penaeus brasiliensis and P. subtilis) in the fishing exclusive zone (200 miles) of French Guiana. The quota allocated to the company is 4,000 t per year but catches are willingly restricted to 1,600 t per year for the sake of sustainability.
Employing 160 workers, Unifipêche was founded in 1988 by Compagnie des Pêches de Saint-Malo, a company established in 1934 in Saint-Malo (Brittany) for cod fishing on Newfoundland banks.

The house flag of Unifipêche, as painted on the hull of the ships (no actual flag seen yet), is "quartered" blue-red-red-blue by a white diamond charged with a black "U".

Source: Compagnie des Pêches de Saint-Malo website

Ivan Sache, 25 January 2010