France: Norovirus, oyster farmers mobilized in the face of the crisis

This time again, the norovirus epidemic seriously disrupted oyster farmers during the end-of-year holidays. Professionals denounce the “polluted pays” penalty. After the autumn storms and associated floods, professionals sounded the alert against the risk of wastewater spills. As early as November, an order prohibiting the consumption of burrowing shellfish was published in the Arcachon basin, then prefectural oyster farming decisions followed one another in the Pays de la Loire, Morbihan, Calvados and Manche, until the latest, that of an area in the bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, on January 10. After a few spills of oysters as a sign of protest, professionals mobilized collectively to take the matter to court. The first initiative took place on December 29, led by Adeba, an association for the defense of the waters of the Arcachon basin created in 1964 by oyster farmers to fight, that year, against the discharge of a paper mill into the waters. of the pelvis. Adeba has filed a ...