With its minerals salts-rich groundwaters, the Bouin polder, which has a surface area of about 200 hectares, reclaimed from the sea following the construction of dikes in the 1960s, is very favourable to the growth of small oysters.
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Site facilities
- 1 micro oyster nursery
- 3 oyster-clam nurseries.