The French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) recently compiled the French Marine-related Economic Data (2001), a 90-page document in French and English presenting a survey of ocean industries in France. This document is published every other year and this is the 4th in a series. The current document first gives an overview of the Economic Impact of Maritime Industries in Europe, report released by the EU in 2001 on actual conditions in ocean industries in 1997 in EU member countries and Norway. In order to gain an understanding of the big picture of the actual state of the ocean industries in European countries, the main points of the 2001 report are first introduced and then a summary is given of the scale and the structure of the French ocean industries.