France mortality 2009

[Mark]

Mortality in France started exceptionally early this year in May in the Mediterranean and Arcachon and progressed steadily North to affect most areas by mid June.
There are some good web resources so to save repeating this is mainly just a post with links:
The most up to date collated info is here (thanks to Tony Legg in Jersey for supplying this link):
To view any article in English, install the Google toolbar and press Translate - it does an amazingly good job!

http://aquaculture-aquablog.blogspot.com/2009/05/mortalite-des-huitres-2009-revue-de.html

IFREMER Review article

Review article about C.gigas global transfers and mortality

'Observatory' 2009 experiments in the field




Info 3- 17th June

Info 4- 1st July

IRELAND
Oyster mortalities reported in 10 Irish bays (Marine Institute)

Ireland update (undated - early August?)) (Marine Institute)