Pages tagged Puget Sound
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Hammersley Inlet
A South Puget Sound beach oyster, spread on a pebble bottom and picked by hand. Low in salt, big in body, with cucumber and a metallic note at the end.
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Henderson Inlet
A South Puget Sound inlet once closed by pollution. A community oyster farm began in 2002, sold its first oysters in 2008, and saw 240 acres upgraded in 2010.
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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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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.