Pages tagged Rock Oyster
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Goa
Wild oysters, calvam in Konkani, gathered by hand from Goa's creeks and bays. An unwritten rule returns the mother shells so that the next generation has somewhere to settle.
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Saccostrea cucullata
A rock oyster of Indo-Pacific shores, from Kenya's mangroves to India and Australia, used as much to monitor pollution as to eat.
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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.