European investors look to Pacific region for more fish . . .
But airfreight rates are the challenge Dominique Gautron's company, Autremer, founded nine years ago, is a small company headquartered at Grenoble, Southern France. But it also has an office in the big Paris fish market. Each day it takes delivery of fish flown to it from Western Africa, Oman and Yemen. In January, it began operating its own fishing boat, equipped for processing, for a port on the coast of Yemen. Until the boat went into service the company had concentrated purely on selling unprocessed fish to the French market.