Pages tagged Tasmania
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Bruny Island Pacific
Pacific oysters from Great Bay, sold almost only at the farm's own bar. Get Shucked started as a caravan by the road and keeps 40,000 to 50,000 dozen on its lease.
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Moulting Bay
A bay near St Helens, Tasmania, farmed by Craig Lockwood's Lease 65. In 2024 POMS was detected here, a first for the east coast, hitting a quarter of his market-ready oysters.
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Freycinet
Pacific oysters from the Great Swanport estuary, eaten at a farm-gate shop on Tasmania's Great Eastern Drive, beside Freycinet National Park.
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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.