
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.


Lady’s Island
ACE Basin, South Carolina

Isle Dauphine
Dauphin Island, Alabama

Bodie Island
Outer Banks, North Carolina

Chadwick Creek
Pamlico Sound, North Carolina

Spring Creek
Barnstable Harbor, Cape Cod

Caminada Bay
Caminada Bay, Louisiana

Oysterpond
Peconic Bay, Long Island

Saint Simon
Saint Simon Bay, New Brunswick

Katama Bay
Katama Bay

Forbidden
York River, Virginia

Thirty-Eight Degrees North
Chesapeake Bay

Dragon Creek
Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay

Pipes Cove
Peconic Bay, Long Island

Watch Hill
Winnapaug Pond, Westerly, RI

Chilmark
Menemsha Pond, Martha's Vineyard

Crowes Pasture
Cape Cod Bay

Old 1871
Smith Island Inlet, Virginia

Conway Cup
Cascumpec Bay, PEI

Ruisseau
Eel Lake, Nova Scotia

Choptank Sweet
Choptank River, Chesapeake Bay

Blackberry Point
Malpeque Bay, PEI

Olde Salt
Chincoteague Bay, Virginia

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