Pages tagged Long Island
Great South Bay
The bay behind Fire Island that named the Blue Point. Its oysters collapsed between 1940 and 1980; Islip's hatchery and leased plots are bringing farmed ones back.
Little Ram
A Gardiners Bay oyster from a 20-acre farm off Shelter Island, founded in 2018 by Elizabeth Peeples and Stefanie Bassett. Over two million oysters a year.
Montauk Pearls
Montauk's first oyster farm, begun in 2009 by fisherman Mike Martinsen and biologist Mike Doall. A surface-grown oyster: salty, crisp, with a finish like watermelon rind.
Peconic Gold
The Ketcham family's North Fork oyster from a ten-acre shallow bank in Great Peconic Bay. Iron from the Peconic River and algae blooms give the shell its color.
Peconic Pearls
A North Fork cooperative oyster, seeded from a Southold hatchery run since 2000. Five cents from each one sold goes to work on the Peconic Estuary.
Robins Island
Peconic Bay oysters from an underwater grant worked since the late 1800s, beside a privately owned island. Medium brine and an iron richness, in Rowan Jacobsen's words.
Blue Point
The Great South Bay name that became shorthand for any Eastern oyster. What a 1908 law said, and where most 'Blue Points' come from now.