Lexicon
Calibration Once the collected naissain, it is then appropriate to sort it according to its size. It is thus gauged, first once, put out of pocket, and installed on the ground or oyster beds, same. Seven months are passed before a new calibration. Meanwhile, the pockets will have been turned 4 times on average so to prevent that they do not push wildly through those.
Collecting The operation of Collecting consists in collecting the larvae (invisible with the naked œil), laid by oysters thanks to collectors (such as the tiles), immersed beforehand in a mixture of lime and sand.
Marketing It is spread out over one year: the third year. The oysters wait their hour of tasting patiently
Shellfish farming Breeding of the edible shells.
Growth (period of...) Following the second calibration the oysters are reinstalled again on the parks where they will profit 11 months during, being disturbed only by the transfer of the pockets (to avoid which do not fix themselves at it).
Désatrocage One month separates us from now on installation from the tiles. At present, it is advisable to clean oysters with to separate them from various parasites such as naissain, sponges, herbes… The oysters are then désatroquées and the first oysters are ready with to be marketed.
Détrocage Six months later, the larvae became small oysters not larger than a nail of inch and must then to be withdrawn from these tiles. Formerly détroquées with the hand, the naissain is recovered today mechanically. The lime-sand mixture then plays its role of buffer between the tile and the naissain.
Abrasion Bridge œufs. Their fecundation by the male.
Oyster The oyster is one bivalvular mollusc (2 asymmetrical valves), lamellibranche (gills in plates), pertaining to the command of the filibranches, the sub-order of the anysomyaires and the family of ostréidés, which according to species' is high (or, more rarely, fished) for her flesh, or for its invaluable concretions (mother-of-pearl, pearl).
Ostreiculture Breeding of oysters.
Naissain Small oyster.