Oyster farming

Oyster farming is an aquaculture (or mariculture) practice in which oysters are bred and raised mainly for their pearls, shells and inner organ tissue, which is eaten. Oyster farming was practiced by the ancient Romans as early as the 1st century BC on the Italian peninsula[1][2] and later in Britain for export to Rome. The French oyster industry has relied on aquacultured oysters since the late 18th century.[3]

  1. ^ Higginbotham JA (1997). Piscinae: artificial fishponds in Roman Italy. University of North Carolina Press. p. 247, note 44. ISBN 9780807823293.
  2. ^ Bannon CJ (March 2001). "Servitudes for Water Use in the Roman "Suburbium"". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 50 (1): 34–52. JSTOR 4436602. For more on these early efforts, see Sergius Orata.
  3. ^ Kurlansky M (2006). The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell. New York: Ballantine Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-345-47638-8.