Limed tile
The limed tile is a half-round Tuile coated with a mixture of lime and Sable intended for the collecting of the Naissain (larvae of Huître S) within the collectors.
The oyster collectors, which one calls also cages or hives, are cases Coaltar ées (tarred) in which are arranged the limed tiles where the oyster larvae fix themselves.
It is initially thanks to the intuition of the naturalist Vincent Coste that one owes the capture of the larvae by imagining in 1859 the first collector (made up at the time simply of tiles) tested successfully close to Arcachon. However, if the young oyster sets the tile of course, thus enabling him to develop, it becomes then difficult from of to detach it.
One must with Jean Michelet, a mason arcachonnais, developed in 1865 the technique known as of the Chaulage (one also speaks to bleach the tiles) by coating the tiles with a mixture of sand and lime resisting water. This technique made it possible to the oyster culturists to detach young oysters without being likely to destroy them. It started the rise of the Ostréiculture arcachonnaise.
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