Pages tagged Native
Colchester Native
The Colne's flat oyster, held by the borough of Colchester since 1189, celebrated at an annual feast, and now at the heart of England's largest native oyster restoration.
Fal Oyster
A wild flat oyster from the Fal and Truro rivers, dredged by hand from sailing and rowing boats, as the fishery has been worked for centuries.
Ostrea denselamellosa
Korea's native flat oyster, the beotgul: a brooding, live-bearing species of the southern mudflats whose wild stocks have sharply declined.
Striostrea margaritacea
South Africa's native rock oyster, picked wild from the rocks between Cape Agulhas and Mozambique. Too slow-growing to farm, and rarely seen outside the country.
Olympia
The small native oyster of North America's Pacific coast, nearly wiped out by 1900s harvest and pollution, now farmed in small numbers and restored.
Angasi
Southern Australia's native flat oyster, stripped from its reefs in the 1800s and now grown by a handful of Tasmanian farms for a short winter season.