
Wild
These oysters set as wild spat on rocks and shells in bays, sounds, and intertidal beaches, and are harvested by divers or foragers at low tide. They tend to be irregular in shape and flavor, though sometimes surprising and remarkable.


Onset (wild)
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

Pepper Grove
Galveston Bay, Texas

Pleasure House
Lynnhaven River, Virginia

Belon (Maine)
Harpswell, Maine

Paramour
Northumberland Straits

Mecox Bay
Mecox Bay, Long Island

James River
James River, Virginia

Wellfleet
Wellfleet Harbor

Rocky Reef
Huntington Bay, Long Island

Narragansett
Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island

Stump Sound
Stump Sound, North Carolina

Martha’s Vineyard
Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts

Northumberland
Northumberland Strait

Lady Chatterley
Northumberland Strait

European Flat
Maine Coast

Capers Blades
Capers Island, South Carolina

Ladies Pass
Galveston Bay, Texas

Mermaid Cove
Malpeque Bay, PEI

Crab Slough
Oregon Inlet, Outer Banks, NC

Fat Bastard (PEI)
Malpeque Bay, PEI

Chesapeake
Chesapeake Bay

Tatamagouche
Tatamagouche Bay, Nova Scotia

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