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Flat oyster beds distribution in Brittany, France (FOREVER project)
Contact:
Joint Service Unit PatriNat (Natural Heritage) (PatriNat) ;

Availability:
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This map show the occurrence of flat oyster beds in Brittany region (France), in the Atlantic and Channel seas. The typology used is EUNIS 2012.\nFlat Oyster Recovery (FOREVER) is a project realized between 2018 and 2020 with funding from the European Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Fund (EAMEF). The aims of the project were to carry out an inventory and assess the state of health of the main remaining wild populations of flat oysters in Brittany. Data was collected between 2015 and 2020 by IFREMER, Litt'OBS, Cochet Environnement and Plongée Montfort. \n Data, images and project's report are also available with the DOI https://doi.org/10.17882/79821.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Benthos
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Ostrea edulis · Oyster beds · Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758
Temporal coverage
2 October 2014 - 30 March 2021
Taxonomic coverage
Ostrea edulis Linnaeus, 1758 [WoRMS]
Contributors
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER), more, data creator
Pouvreau, Stephane
Joint Service Unit PatriNat (Natural Heritage) (PatriNat)
Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Release date: 2026-05-01
Metadatarecord created: 2026-05-05
Information last updated: 2026-05-12

