Arcachon oyster crisis: sales halved this winter. “We have been called murderers, but we are only victims in history.

Norovirus is not a bacteria that exists naturally in water. It fell on us like poverty on the poor and it broke our legs,” Ingrid Olivier, oyster farmer in Arcachon. To reverse the trend, the sector is launching its season, Saturday April 6, with tastings and bandas (ambulatory brass bands) in a “feria atmosphere”