Pages tagged Oregon
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Coos Bay
Oregon's largest oyster holding: Clausen Oysters' 635 leased acres at North Bend, first seeded in 1980. Big Pacifics, grown for three summers.
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Tillamook Bay
Where Jesse Hayes planted Japanese oyster seed in 1928, starting Oregon's Pacific oyster farming. His grandson, also Jesse, runs Hayes Oyster Company.
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Umpqua Triangle
Pacific oysters grown on 15-foot ropes in the triangle of water between two jetties at Winchester Bay, Oregon, and never set on the bottom.
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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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Netarts Bay
Oregon's clean, salty little bay, where a hatchery's dying larvae became the first clear sign of ocean acidification reaching shellfish farms.