Pages tagged Olympia
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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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Yaquina Bay
Oregon's oldest oyster farm, founded in 1907 on a bay whose native beds were fished out after 1863. Pacifics, Kumamotos and Olympias hang from rafts.
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Willapa Bay
The estuary that shipped oysters to the forty-niners and now supplies around 70% of Washington's oysters. Big, working-bay Pacific oysters with a long history.
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Chelsea Gem
An Eld Inlet oyster tumbled by the tide in bags that rise and fall twice a day, from the family farm that developed the method.
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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.