Is the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulata in Southern Europe endangered by the expansion of the Pacific oyster C. gigas?

• Main Authors: Batista, Frederico, Boudry, Pierre, Lapegue, Sylvie, Heurtebise, Serge, Monteiro, C. C.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Actes International Coneference on Shellifsh Restoration, Brest, France 2-5 Octobre 2005, 14 p. 2005
• Subjects: Selection; Hybridization; Settlement pattern; Population genetic; Genetic; Oysters; Crassostrea angulata; Crassostrea gigas; Mira; Pacific; Pacific oyster
• Online Access: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/2005/acte-3310.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/3310/

The Portuguese oyster, Crassostrea angulata, was introduced from Portugal to the French Atlantic Coast in the 1860s. C. angulata quickly settled and expanded and leaded to the development of a new aquacultural industry in France. In the late 1960s, mortality associated with the detection of an irido...