Identifier: reportofcommiss00grea (find matches)
Title: Report of the Commission appointed to inquire into the Methods of Oyster Culture in the United Kingdom and France, with a view to the Introduction of Improved Methods of Cultivation of Oysters into Ireland : presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of Her Majesty
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Great Britain. Commission appointed to inquire into the Methods of Oyster Culture in the United Kingdom and France, with a view to the Introduction of Improved Methods of Cultivation of Oysters into Ireland Great Britain. Parliament
Subjects: Oyster culture Oyster culture Oyster culture
Publisher: (S.l. : s.n.)
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nature and arrangement of the collectors as required bythe conditions of the locality. The western coast of Re is open to the full force of the Atlantic, and appears about as unpromisinga place for oyster culture as one can imagine. The energy ofthe inhabitants, prompted, no doubt, by the success which attendedthe pares at Rivedoux, on the south coast, overcame all difficulties.The commune of Ars boldly attacked the enterprise under all itsapparent disadvantages. Blasting the rocks, they constructed theirenclosing walls of great strength, and removed the mud, whichlay to the depth of a foot on the shore. The same stones furnished 24 REPORT ON OYSTER CULTURE also rude but cheap collectors, and these they arranged in parallelrows. A considerable depth of mud was removed from the shoreand utilized in the pare walls, which were thus made water-tight.The cost of a pare of thirty yards square so constructed wasstated at £12, and the number of such increased very considerablyin a few vears.
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bo IN THE UNITED KINGDOM AND FRANCE. 25 The total sale of oysters is given by the officials at 18,000,000from 1859 to 1867 ; but by Dr. Kemmerer the correct number isstated to be 40,000,000, a discrepancy accounted for by the factthat correct returns are not made by the peasants for fear of in-creased taxation. There is no reason to doubt but that the decline in productionat Re, Oleron, and other places where foreshore cultivation was soremarkably effective at the commencement is to be attributed to the dirtier state of the collectors, and also to the fact that thenatural beds having been depopulated in the first instance to stockthe pares, the parent oysters were subsequently sold, and thus thesource of spat was removed. The proprietors themselves admit this to have been the case,thinking sufficient spat would settle from the young ovsters at-tached to the stones. This expectation, however, they found tobe delusive, and in the present season means are to be taken torenew the stock and

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