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Quilcene
A Hood Canal bay that once held about 100 acres of solid Olympia oyster beds. Pacifics replaced them; a 2018 survey found the natives scattered but still there.
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Dabob Bay
A deep, forest-ringed bay so short of food that its oysters grow slowly and stay crisp and salty. Taylor Shellfish chose it for a hatchery.
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Hood Canal
A deep, narrow arm of Puget Sound whose tidelands grow some of Washington's best-known Pacific oysters, from Hama Hama to Dabob Bay.
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Blue Pool
Hama Hama's small, deep-cupped oyster, tumbled for a smooth shell and named after a pool up the Hamma Hamma River.
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Hama Hama
A Hood Canal oyster grown by a sixth-generation family business that started in timber, sold at their farm store and Oyster Saloon in Lilliwaup.