After a Dry and Burning Summer, the French Mould Is in a State of Suffering
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The French mussel industry is experiencing a loss of a quarter of its production this summer, weakened by heat waves and a lack of nutrients in the waters.
In the bay of Pont-Mahé (Loire-Atlantique), near the mouth of the Vilaine, the wooden piles are aligned as far as possible on the estran, the part of the coast alternately covered and discovered by the sea with the tide. Gilles Foucher's boat, a mussel farmer in Pénestin (Morbihan), slowly slides between the rows, pulling the mussels out of their piles using a crane, before unloading them into plastic crates. "You see: on about thirty kilos of m…
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