
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.


Ships Point
Baynes Sound, BC

Henderson Inlet
Puget Sound

Summer Blues
Port Townsend Bay

Willapa (shucked)
Willapa Bay

Pearl Bay
Jervis Inlet, BC

Hama Grillers
Hood Canal

Pickering Passage
Pickering Passage, Puget Sound

Elkhorn
Willapa Bay, Washington

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