Southern Utonian | 1888-04-06 | Page 2 | Oyster Culture in France

ater culture in france oyster culture lias has had a great development in franco france thus while in ili 18 1857 1837 37 there were in the bay of arcachon Ar cachon twenty parks or district oyster beds in ill 1863 1865 there sere ero beds p reducing producing oysters annually 1 and l nd there are now acres of beds yi yielding eldin an all annual supply of 0 oysters oysters fron auray on anthe tho coast coaston of brittany oysters were ere sent to market in 1876 77 in 1885 the numbers exceeded on the other hand tho the british oyster industry lias has declined and tile the coast which furnished ancient ancien inome with oysters and N athin a generation exported po arted them to paris now ranks low in in tile lie list of oyster nurseries public opinion