Tag: Oyster farming
In Arcachon, oysters are back but customers remain in their shells
It’s far from being a comeback with fanfare. Under the Teste-de-Buch market hall, fishmongers praise hake or Arcachon sea bass but with the return of oysters from the Bassin. And…
After the norovirus crisis, D-day for the return of oysters to the shelves
It is officially lifted this Friday from 9 a.m. The ban on the sale and consumption of oysters from the Arcachon basin is no longer in force, after the norovirus…
How the marine environment of the Arcachon basin found itself polluted by human waste
” Never again. » A little more than two weeks after the ban on the consumption of Arcachon oysters, which fell on December 27 due to norovirus contamination, oyster farmers…
Towards a lifting of the consumption ban on January 19
Oyster farmers in the Arcachon basin will benefit from “tax benevolence” from the State while awaiting a request for compensation from the European Union, the prefecture announced on Friday. Since…
“It will take time to regain consumer confidence”
First responses after the crisis? The oyster farmers of the Arcachon basin will meet this Friday at 11 a.m. in the prefecture of Gironde, after the ban on the sale…
Oysters banned from sale after collective food poisoning
Nausea, vomiting and diarrhea concluded the meal. On December 9, while celebrating Sainte-Barbe in Saint-Gilles-Croix-de-Vie (Loire-Atlantique), around forty people, including around twenty firefighters, were victims of collective food poisoning. After…
“Half of the oyster production of the Banc d’Arguin has been reduced to nothing”
The effects of the Domingos storm on oyster production have not yet been able to be measured by oyster farmers in the Arcachon basin (Gironde). On the other hand, this…