92 Marc Rastoin ‘œcuménique’, qui traduit l’un des messages essentiels de l’Evangile: le Christ est venu pour les Juifs et pour les Grecs et il rassemble dans ses filets, grâce à ses Apôtres unis à Pierre, tous les poissons du monde. 128 rue Blomet Marc RASTOIN F-75015 - Paris SUMMARY The number of fishes in Joh 21,11 has been a crux for the interpreters of the Fourth Gospel. If the theological meaning of the scene seemed to be clear enough — an allusion to the universality of salvation brought by Christ — the why of the number 153 tried the imagination of scholars since Augustine. This note intends to add several arguments to the proposition made by J. Emerton in 1958 that this number refers to Ez 47,1-12. The link between both passages becomes much easier to make and the theological coherence of this allusion within Johannine global theological framework appears more clearly.