
Off-Bottom Cages
Oysters are grown in cages raised a foot or so off the bay bottom. This protects the oysters from predation and keeps them clean. It also results in thinner-shelled oysters.


Thirty-Eight Degrees North
Chesapeake Bay

Sippewissett
Cape Cod

Spring Creek
Barnstable Harbor, Cape Cod

Pipes Cove
Peconic Bay, Long Island

Shooting Point Salt
Hog Island Bay, Virginia

Nassawaddox Salt
Chesapeake Bay, Virginia

Triple N
Caminada Bay, Louisiana

Point aux Pins
Grand Bay, Alabama

Rochambeau
Chesapeake Bay

Rappahannock River
Rappahannock River, Virginia

Katama Bay
Katama Bay

Potomac Whitecap
Chesapeake Bay

Isle Dauphine
Dauphin Island, Alabama

Raspberry Point
New London Bay, PEI

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