Comments on: Herpes Killing Young French Oysters http://www.whytraveltofrance.com/2008/08/05/herpes-killing-young-french-oysters/ An American in France writes about the good, the bad and the quirky Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:21:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Kevin Phoenix http://www.whytraveltofrance.com/2008/08/05/herpes-killing-young-french-oysters/comment-page-1/#comment-878565 Kevin Phoenix Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:46:49 +0000 http://www.whytraveltofrance.com/?p=1295#comment-878565 I read about this first in the local newspaper... and it's not the first instance of man's effect on the sex of fish - there have been a number of recent findings on freshwater fish sex changes in Scotland, for example. However, it seems the French are not too deterred - last time they just imported loads of oysters from Japan. Meanwhile, we seem to have plenty of oysters in the market at Thiviers. I read about this first in the local newspaper… and it’s not the first instance of man’s effect on the sex of fish – there have been a number of recent findings on freshwater fish sex changes in Scotland, for example.

However, it seems the French are not too deterred – last time they just imported loads of oysters from Japan. Meanwhile, we seem to have plenty of oysters in the market at Thiviers.

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