On the Western shore of Cotentin (Manche department), oyster farming is developing. It profits by an original method : open sea oyster-breeding on raised wattles. But unfortunately this farming is endangered by the drastic application of an order (dating 15th June 78), emanating from the Minister of Health and the Minister of Transports, prescribing the creation of tanks of purification, which are of no use in this technique and dangerous to the public health, because the sea water of the tanks will be taken from the Agon-Coutainville sewage.Sur la côte ouest du Cotentin, département de la Manche, se développe un élevage ostréicole bénéficiant d’une méthode originale : culture en pleine mer des huîtres sur des claies élevées au-dessus du s...