Professionals have been waiting since 2008 for this recognition by the National Institute of Origin and Quality.
A good elected Norman should always have a pair of rubber boots in the trunk of his car. For lack of it, it is therefore with plastic bags tied to the calves that Hervé Morin, president of the Normandy region, and Jean Morin, president of the Manche department, announced, Tuesday, July 19, the recognition of the Norman oyster by the National Institute for Origin and Quality (Inao), during a visit to an oyster farm in the Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue basin (50). “A party day!”, the elected officials congratulated each other by tasting some generous number 2 well iodized.
For fifteen years, the Normandy shellfish industry, which includes some 300 farms and generates more than 3,500 direct jobs, not counting the thousands of seasonal workers, has been demanding this recognition of the Normandy oyster by the Inao. This is the last step in view of its upcoming recognition as a PGI (protected geographical indication)…
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