Pages tagged Wild
Capers Blades
Wild Lowcountry oysters from the marsh behind South Carolina's barrier islands, separated from their clusters with an iron tool and sold one at a time since 2008.
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.
Knysna
South Africa's oyster town. Lagoon farming began in the late 1940s and proved unviable; the farmed oysters served there now grow in Port Elizabeth and Saldanha Bay.
Norwegian Flat
The European flat oyster at its northern limit. Norway's stock is free of bonamia and marteilia, and only small amounts are taken, from a few farms in the west.
Tatamagouche
A big, sandy-colored, often long and narrow oyster from Nova Scotia's Northumberland shore. Sold May to early winter; uneven, and very good when it is good.
Ariake Sea
The shallow Kyushu sea where three cupped oysters live side by side: the Kumamoto, the Suminoe that takes its name from Ariake, and the Pacific.
Bohuslän
Wild European flat oysters from Sweden's west-coast archipelago, hand-picked by divers at the cold northern edge of the species' range.
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.
Galveston Bay
The Texas bay whose reefs were smothered by Hurricane Ike's surge. Wild harvest now depends on which areas pass state sampling each season.
Maine Belon
European flat oysters brought from the Netherlands in 1949 took hold near Boothbay Harbor and spread along Maine's coast. A small wild fishery harvests them today.
Bluff
A wild flat oyster dredged from the cold strait below New Zealand's South Island, in season only from March to August, and nearly lost to disease twice.
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.
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.
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.
Naked Cowboy
A wild Long Island Sound oyster gathered by divers, sold under a name borrowed from the Times Square street performer.
West African Mangrove Oyster
An oyster picked from mangrove roots at low tide, mostly by women, and in The Gambia managed by a women's association that won the Equator Prize in 2012.
Caraquet
A small, slow-grown oyster from the cold bay of an Acadian fishing town, long a staple of Maritime fishermen and pubs.
Limfjord
Wild Danish flat oysters from a fjord a storm opened to the North Sea in 1825, fished by about 101 small dredgers under strict gear rules.
Apalachicola
Florida's great tonged oyster, lost in the 2012 collapse after years of low river flow. A two-month season returned in 2026 on about 500 acres.