
Pacific
The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) is native to Japan’s Pacific coast. It grows quickly and easily; has elegant, ruffled shells with streaks of pink and purple amid the white and green; and tends to be sweeter and less briny than the Eastern oyster, with a flavor like cucumber and melon rind. It was imported in the 1930s to save the west coast industry after the Olympia was nearly wiped out, and is the main oyster used today worldwide, from France to China.


Fine de Claire Verte
Marenne-Oleron

Skookum Point
Little Skookum Inlet, Puget Sound

Deer Creek
Hood Canal

Royal Courtesan
Cortes Island, British Colombia

Fine de Claire
Marenne-Oleron

Treasure Cove
Case Inlet, Puget Sound

Pousse en Claire
Marennes-Oléron

Shikat Bay
Alaska

Shibumi
Eld Inlet, Puget Sound

Kelly Gigas
Killeenaran, Galway Bay, Ireland

Elkhorn
Willapa Bay, Washington

Jersey Rock
English Channel

Lopez Island
Shoal Bay, Lopez Island

Hammersley
Hammersley Inlet, Puget Sound

Marina’s Top Drawer
Cortes Island, BC

Cancale
English Channel

Netarts Bay
Netarts Bay, Oregon

GwiGwi
British Columbia

Komo Gway
Vancouver Island, BC

Little Skookum
Little Skookum Inlet, Puget Sound

Dabob Bay
Dabob Bay, Hood Canal, WA

Pickering Passage
Pickering Passage, Puget Sound

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