Spatial distribution in a temperate coastal ecosystem of the wild stock of the farmed oyster Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg)

• Published in: Aquaculture
• Main Authors: Cognie, B, Haure, Joel, Barille, L
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2006
• Subjects: Orthophotographs; Invasion; Wild stock; Introduced species; Crassostrea gigas; Fanning; Pacific; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2006/publication-1878.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquaculture.2006.05.037; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1878/

The Pacific oyster, Crassostrea gigas, well known throughout the world because of its ability to adapt to a wide range of environmental conditions, was introduced for cultivation into France on a massive scale in the 1970s. With global warming, the reproductive population, confined at the beginning...