Résumé
Two oyster species are cultivated on the French coasts: the Pacific cupped oyster (Crassostrea gigas), which has been introduced from Japan in the 1970's after the disappearance of the Portuguese oyster Crassostrea angulala, and the European flat oyster (Ostrea edulis). During the second half of the 1960's, the latter suffered successively from two diseases caused by protozoan parasites: marteiliosis (also called "maladie des Abers") and bonamiosis. In France, its production dropped from 20,000 tian in the 1960's to 2,000 today. The impact of these two pathogens as well as the exploitation of the remaining stocks show the importance of the conservation of this species, the only natural European species, whose population is more and more fragmented.