1970-01-01 00:00:00
DSunday Morning, the Dupays brothers, breeders in Boismont, lost 27 ewes and lambs in the Bay. They had settled in the salt meadows for the season since the 1 is avril.
Members of the AOP breeders near the Bay of Somme, they graze their animals near Saint-Valery-sur-Somme. “It is risky land, like all natural areas. In the mountains, there are precipices, wolves. We have the tide and the arms of water to cross. We know it can happen, concedes Régis Dupays. It was on our way back when the tide was rising that we failed to cross an arm of the sea. The animals panicked, the herd rushed, it’s powerful! Animals were suffocated by the mass. We failed to save them. We called the firefighters to help us recover them because they were not accessible and they helped us well.”
When emergency services were notified, the gendarmerie also came, noting the accidental death of the sheep and their lambs.
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