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Lindisfarne
A North Sea oyster from beds the Lindisfarne monks stocked in 1381, restarted in 1989 and run by the Sutherland family at Ross Farm.
Menai
A Welsh oyster grown since 1994 by shellfish biologist Shaun Krijnen on the Anglesey side of the Menai Strait, in bags on racks swept by strong tides.
Poole Harbour
England's largest Pacific oyster area. Othniel Oysters grows over 2 million a year on the harbour bed, from French triploid seed nursed on a converted ferry.
Portland Royal
Pacific oysters from the Fleet Lagoon behind Chesil Beach, finished for 7 to 12 months in Australian-style baskets beside the café that serves them.
Porthilly
The Marshall family's rock oyster from the Camel Estuary at Rock, opposite Padstow. About 800,000 a year, grown from 6 mm seed in cages on frames.
Colchester Native
The Colne's flat oyster, held by the borough of Colchester since 1189, celebrated at an annual feast, and now at the heart of England's largest native oyster restoration.
Fal Oyster
A wild flat oyster from the Fal and Truro rivers, dredged by hand from sailing and rowing boats, as the fishery has been worked for centuries.
Whitstable, Kent
A short train ride from London, a harbor town built on oysters: a 1793 fishermen's company, a protected name and five-year native oysters from the Kentish flats.
Loch Fyne
The Scottish oyster farm that became a restaurant name across Britain, still growing Pacific oysters on the Ardkinglas shore at the head of the loch.
Richard Haward's
A Mersea Island family business in its eighth generation, selling native and rock oysters from the Blackwater creeks and a stall at Borough Market.
Loch Ryan Native
Wild flat oysters from a Scottish loch granted to one family in 1701, dredged by two fishermen who return the small ones to rebuild the beds.
Whitstable Native
Kent's flat oyster: a 1793 fishermen's company, 80 million oysters a year to London at its peak, near-collapse in the twentieth century, and a PGI since 1997.