| The French network RESCO was developed in 2009, following the widespread mortalities in French oysters stocks of Crassostrea gigas that killed a majority of young cultivated oysters in summer 2008. The main objective of this network was to develop a tool of estimation of the mortalities at national scale, through a standardized monitoring of sentinel oysters In 2013, similar batches of spat and 18 month old oysters from different origins were deployed in thirteen sites located all along the French coasts to measure the spatial and temporal evolution of the mortality and growth rates. At the same time, the program provides a high-frequency recording of environmental parameters and the detection of the main infectious agents associated to the oyster... |
