294 _
THE SEAS
'
that, according to Pliny, they endeavoured with apparent
success
to
increase
the
natural
supply by cultivating
them articially in Lake Lucrin, and Roman funeral vases
from the time of Augustus have been discovered on which
'
are designs showing the method of cultivation.
There are many species of oyster but only two inhabit
.
the coasts of Europe, the “native
”
oyster (Ostrea edulis)
and the Portuguese oyster (Ostrea angulazfa) ; the former,
as shOWn in Plate 105, beinground and at, and the latter
more
elorigatéd and deeper, While, as-we shall See, there
are
other
important. differences between them.
The
Portuguese oyster, as
tells us, is a more southern
species and Was origihally found mainly around the Iberian
.
PeninSula; but of recent years it has Spread northwards
along ”the coast of France at the expense of
more highly
esteem’ed, ëbut= Î-much less hardy, native.
The
is
still the only kind ”of 'oyster found-around the shores of
Great Britain, where the water is too cold for the Portuguese
oyster, and it also occurs northward along the west coast
of Europe as far as the middle of the Norwegian coast,
most
shery o’f‘any great importance
is
in
Denmark.
The oyster is largely a shallow-water
animal with a preference for estuaries, and this has made
possible its articial cultivation, which forms an important
industry in many parts of the world especially in France
and Japan,
_
'
.
_OvSræzn CUI;£IVATiON
'
Thé
history Of oyster cultivation "in Europe is -a
fascinàting one. ' ‘AS'We have'already' seen, in
in so
,
muèh 'else,‘ the Romans were the pionéers, and it
that the crude methods of cultivati0n in use at the present
dayïon Lake Fusetro, and in‘ the Gulf of Tarant0' in Italy,
,
have bee,handed down from the days of “the Romans.
‘
THE SEAS
'
that, according to Pliny, they endeavoured with apparent
success
to
increase
the
natural
supply by cultivating
them articially in Lake Lucrin, and Roman funeral vases
from the time of Augustus have been discovered on which
'
are designs showing the method of cultivation.
There are many species of oyster but only two inhabit
.
the coasts of Europe, the “native
”
oyster (Ostrea edulis)
and the Portuguese oyster (Ostrea angulazfa) ; the former,
as shOWn in Plate 105, beinground and at, and the latter
more
elorigatéd and deeper, While, as-we shall See, there
are
other
important. differences between them.
The
Portuguese oyster, as
tells us, is a more southern
species and Was origihally found mainly around the Iberian
.
PeninSula; but of recent years it has Spread northwards
along ”the coast of France at the expense of
more highly
esteem’ed, ëbut= Î-much less hardy, native.
The
is
still the only kind ”of 'oyster found-around the shores of
Great Britain, where the water is too cold for the Portuguese
oyster, and it also occurs northward along the west coast
of Europe as far as the middle of the Norwegian coast,
most
shery o’f‘any great importance
is
in
Denmark.
The oyster is largely a shallow-water
animal with a preference for estuaries, and this has made
possible its articial cultivation, which forms an important
industry in many parts of the world especially in France
and Japan,
_
'
.
_OvSræzn CUI;£IVATiON
'
Thé
history Of oyster cultivation "in Europe is -a
fascinàting one. ' ‘AS'We have'already' seen, in
in so
,
muèh 'else,‘ the Romans were the pionéers, and it
that the crude methods of cultivati0n in use at the present
dayïon Lake Fusetro, and in‘ the Gulf of Tarant0' in Italy,
,
have bee,handed down from the days of “the Romans.
‘