CHAPTER XXV. 



OYSTER CULTURE IN FRANCE. 



RETURN to an Order of the Honourable the House of 

 Commons, dated ist August, 1882; for Copy "of 

 Translation of a REPORT made to the Minister of 

 Marine in France, by M. Brocchi, relative to OYSTER 

 CULTURE on the SHORES of the CHANNEL and of the 

 OCEAN, and published in the ' Journal Officiel de la 

 Republique Francaise,' of the 8th November, 1881, 

 (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 220, of 

 Session 1877)." 



T. H. FARRER. 



Board of Trade, \st August, 1882. 



REPORT. 



BY a decision, dated the 3oth June last, the Minister of 

 Agriculture and Commerce, in accordance with a request 

 made some time past by the oyster cultivators of the Breton 

 district, and with the desire formally expressed by the 

 senatorial commission upon re-stocking the waters, has 

 instituted a course of oyster-culture and marine pisciculture 

 in the laboratory founded by Coste at Concarenau 

 (Finistere.) 



