Oysters are the big winners of the holidays in 2022 in France

Published Dec 26, 2022

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Oyster sales are outperforming other traditional products like foie gras due to higher prices. Despite a 10-15% decrease in production, the market is supplied and sales are similar to the previous year. It takes three and a half years to produce an oyster, and while producers are trying to reduce costs, a price increase was necessary, bringing prices back to levels from 2010-2012. However, Laurent Chiron, president of the IGP movement for oysters in Marennes-Oléron, emphasizes that oysters remain an affordable product.

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What if it was the star product of these 2022 end-of-year celebrations? Oysters are indeed achieving a good commercial performance compared to foie gras and other traditional products, the prices of which have soared. "The 2022 vintage is not bad, I don't know if we are really taking advantage of the soaring prices of our foie gras colleagues, but we have established sales that are roughly like those of last year ( …) Marennes-Oléron sells between 19 and 20,000 tonnes of oysters per year,” said Laurent Chiron, president of the IGP movement for oysters in Marennes-Oléron, interviewed in Good Evening Business. However, oyster production has fallen by around 10 to 15% this year, but less than other foodstuffs. "The production was lower especially for the large sizes, the number 2 and number 1, but concerning the number 3 and number 4, we have no problem at all so we were able to supply the market since the oyster the most consumed on the market is number 3." But what rise in the ...

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