Independent: A mysterious ailment is killing up to 80 per cent of adult oysters in shell fisheries around the French coast this summer, threatening an industry already weakened by a succession of crises.
The bizarre weather weeks of rain and cold followed by tropical temperatures is officially blamed for the sudden death of scores of thousands of oysters in south-western France, Brittany and Normandy.
But producers fear that an unknown disease may be devastating oyster beds, stricken since 2008 by a...