Introduction: With the objective of diversifying current fishing and at the request of professionals in Aquitaine, the Regional Commission of Maritime Fishing and Marine Breeding (CRPMEM) of Aquitaine has started a discussion about the possibilities of opening a shellfishery. In the context of this course of action, and because of the absence of information on the presence and size of the resource, the CRPMEM of Aquitaine asked IFREMER's Halieutic Resources Laboratory of Aquitaine (LRHA) for assistance in acquiring information on the subject. At the same time, a prospective analysis study of the exploitation of shellfish off the coast of Aquitaineregulation and business sectionwas performed by the CRPMEM of Aquitaine (Coiffec, 2006). At that same time,... |