
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.


Spring Creek
Barnstable Harbor, Cape Cod

Chadwick Creek
Pamlico Sound, North Carolina

Raspberry Point
New London Bay, PEI

Conway Cup
Cascumpec Bay, PEI

Saint Simon
Saint Simon Bay, New Brunswick

Rappahannock River
Rappahannock River, Virginia

Caminada Bay
Caminada Bay, Louisiana

Cape May Salt
Delaware Bay, New Jersey

Turtleback
Portersville Bay

Chilmark
Menemsha Pond, Martha's Vineyard

Chesapeake Gold
Hooper's Island, Chesapeake Bay

Lady’s Island
ACE Basin, South Carolina

Widow’s Hole
Peconic River, Long Island

Peconic Gold
Peconic Bay

Forbidden
York River, Virginia

Riptide
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

Isle Dauphine
Dauphin Island, Alabama

Waukeag Neck
Mount Desert Narrows, Maine

Mayflower
Cape Cod Bay

York River
York River, Chesapeake

Watch Hill
Winnapaug Pond, Westerly, RI

Little Bitches
Magothy Bay, Virginia

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