
Eastern
The Eastern oyster (Crassostrea virginica) is native to the Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic coast of North America, and nowhere else. It tends to have a strong, gray-brown shell and a clean, briny flavor.


Brewster
Cape Cod Bay

Gay Island
Meduncook River, Maine

Riptide
Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts

Quivet Neck
Quivet Neck, Cape Cod Bay

Forbidden
York River, Virginia

Crab Slough
Oregon Inlet, Outer Banks, NC

Big Rock
East Dennis, Cape Cod

Wellfleet
Wellfleet Harbor

Nasketucket
Nasketucket Bay, Massachusetts

Row 34
Duxbury Bay

First Light
Popponesset Bay, Cape Cod

Shinnecock
Shinnecock Bay, Long Island

Beauregard Island
Caminada Bay, Louisiana

Onset (cultivated)
Buzzards Bay

Crowes Pasture
Cape Cod Bay

Point aux Pins
Grand Bay, Alabama

Potomac Whitecap
Chesapeake Bay

Chatham
Oyster Pond, Chatham, Cape Cod

Northern Cross
Fishermans Island, Virginia

Cuttyhunk
Cuttyhunk Island, Massachusetts

Rocky Reef
Huntington Bay, Long Island

Bagaduce
Bagaduce River, Maine

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