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H.-J. Ceccaldi et al. (eds.), Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_33, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract
The history of French oyster farming is marked by threats and diffi culties,
thus subsequent adaptations. There have been some signifi cant changes in
the oyster practices, the economic operation of enterprises, and the place
of oyster farming in coastal areas, whereas the persistence of the oyster
farming sector facing signifi cant threats has periodically been questioned.
Environmental changes have played an important role in this activity
closely related to the environment: pollution from various sources, increasing episodes of contamination by phycotoxins, extreme weather events,
and climate change. Recently, the high-mortality syndrome questions the
issue of the conditions for the sustainability of the activity. Taking into
account the confl icting uses in the coastal zone and the importance of relationships with watershed activities, the development policies must also
analyze the adaptation capacity of oyster farming socio-ecosystems in
these environments highly dynamically, spatially, and temporally. Can we
talk about the resilience of oyster culture? We introduce the concept of
socio-ecosystem applied to oyster farming, as appropriate for the analysis
of resilience. What are the questions lying behind the oyster farming resilience and which method can be used for its study? Using the case of
French oyster farming, this communication proposes to discuss some
answers to these questions, for different aspects.
C. Mariojouls (*)
AgroParisTech , 16 rue Claude Bernard ,
75231 Paris Cedex 05 , France
e-mail: catherine.mariojouls@agroparistech.fr
J. Prou
IFREMER , Ronce-les-Bains ,
17390 La Tremblade , France
e-mail: jean.prou@ifremer.fr
Changes, Adaptations,
and Resilience: The Case of French
Oyster Farming
Catherine Mariojouls and Jean Prou
1
Introduction
The French oyster farming since its inception in
the nineteenth century has been regularly obliged
to evolve in order to adapt to new situations, so
that the history of oyster farming offers a rich
range of diffi culties or threats, and subsequent
evolutions, for an analysis. We shall fi rst present
chronologically the main trends in production,
H.-J. Ceccaldi et al. (eds.), Marine Productivity: Perturbations and Resilience of Socio-ecosystems,
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13878-7_33, © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Abstract
The history of French oyster farming is marked by threats and diffi culties,
thus subsequent adaptations. There have been some signifi cant changes in
the oyster practices, the economic operation of enterprises, and the place
of oyster farming in coastal areas, whereas the persistence of the oyster
farming sector facing signifi cant threats has periodically been questioned.
Environmental changes have played an important role in this activity
closely related to the environment: pollution from various sources, increasing episodes of contamination by phycotoxins, extreme weather events,
and climate change. Recently, the high-mortality syndrome questions the
issue of the conditions for the sustainability of the activity. Taking into
account the confl icting uses in the coastal zone and the importance of relationships with watershed activities, the development policies must also
analyze the adaptation capacity of oyster farming socio-ecosystems in
these environments highly dynamically, spatially, and temporally. Can we
talk about the resilience of oyster culture? We introduce the concept of
socio-ecosystem applied to oyster farming, as appropriate for the analysis
of resilience. What are the questions lying behind the oyster farming resilience and which method can be used for its study? Using the case of
French oyster farming, this communication proposes to discuss some
answers to these questions, for different aspects.
C. Mariojouls (*)
AgroParisTech , 16 rue Claude Bernard ,
75231 Paris Cedex 05 , France
e-mail: catherine.mariojouls@agroparistech.fr
J. Prou
IFREMER , Ronce-les-Bains ,
17390 La Tremblade , France
e-mail: jean.prou@ifremer.fr
Changes, Adaptations,
and Resilience: The Case of French
Oyster Farming
Catherine Mariojouls and Jean Prou
1
Introduction
The French oyster farming since its inception in
the nineteenth century has been regularly obliged
to evolve in order to adapt to new situations, so
that the history of oyster farming offers a rich
range of diffi culties or threats, and subsequent
evolutions, for an analysis. We shall fi rst present
chronologically the main trends in production,