Conscious of the importance of this discovery, he planted thicker posts linked by a framework of branches and holding bags made out of old nets containing young mussels.
That's how the very first "bouchot" appeared...
(bout = fence and choat or chot = wood)
700 years later these breeding practices are still in use in our local farming community with only slight modifications.
Nothing will appeal to you more than a tour of the bouchots area when the tide goes out, revealing the tops of this huge forest of posts. Line after line, row after row, with impressive regularity, they stretch from la Tranche sur Mer to the village of Esnandes in the Charente- Maritime
The bouchots of l'Aiguillon are the oldest and the largest in the world.
