Worldwide production of farmed shellfish is estimated at 12 million tonnes/year, compared with 26 million tonnes/year of fish and 2.1 million tonnes/year of crustaceans. This figure includes 4 million tonnes of oysters, 3.43 million tonnes of clams, 1.5 million tonnes of various species of mussels...

This session presents a brief history of French marine aquaculture; its strengths and weaknesses and the food, industrial and biotechnological perspectives (in the context of the transition) of resources in the algae, fish and mollusc culture sectors in France, beginning from fishing or gathering...

The French network REPAMO was created in 1992 and was in-charge of the surveillance and monitoring of the mollusc health along the French coast according to the European legislation. The missions of the network includes: surveillance of notifiable diseases present in France, study of abnormal...

Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) systems are a promising solution for sustainable aquaculture combining nutrient recycling with increased biomass production. An innovative land-based recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) was studied in France for a 60-day experiment. It combined a...

The total organic aquaculture production at EU 27 level is estimated at 74.032 tonnes in 2020, accounting for 6.4% of the total EU aquaculture production. The production has increased by 60% compared to 2015 (46.341 tonnes at EU 27 level in 2015), this is mainly due to a growth in organic mussel...

Oyster diseases have major consequences on fisheries and aquaculture. In France, young Pacific oysters Crassostrea gigas are severely hit by the ostreid herpesvirus, whereas adults suffer mortalities presumably caused by pathogenic bacteria. Here we investigated the origin and spread of mortalities ...

The Manila clam Ruditapes philippinarum (Adams and Reeve, 1850) is one of the mollusc species that, driven mainly by the shellfish market industry, has extended throughout the world, far beyond the limits of its original habitat. The Manila clam was introduced into France for aquaculture purposes,...

The natural productivity of ecosystems, farming practices and mortality events drive the rearing density and growth of oysters in shellfish farming areas. The variability of these drivers, which can be of natural or anthropic origin, is therefore an important source of variation in the growth...

The Farm Aquaculture Resource Management (FARM) model has been applied to several shellfish species and aquaculture types. The performance of the FARM model, developed to simulate potential harvest, key financial data, and water quality impacts at the farm-scale, was tested in five systems in the...