Consolidated "Oysters - where to buy? Your favorites? Etc." thread
Jun 17, 2016, 8:23 am
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Oysters: Can other parts of the US compete with New England?
Being from the NE I've had some great oysters. Now living in the south I am trying the diff. types from the Gulf. I "might" have found ones that rival New England. They are called Murder Point Oysters and are from AL. They use an old Australian method of farming them where they don't allow the baskets to sit on the bottom. They raise and lower depending on the tide.
What are some of your favorite oysters that come from other places than New England?
What are some of your favorite oysters that come from other places than New England?
Jun 17, 2016, 9:53 am
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The Gulf oysters tend to be much larger than others. Some people like that and others it's a turn off.
Feb 3, 2017, 3:08 pm
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I would caution against eating raw oysters from B.C., including Fanny Bay (by name/brand). There's been Norovirus found in oysters where they're farmed in more than a few locations quite a distance apart. Dozens reported sick locally (many at, ironically, an oyster festival) and in Ontario in the past 3 months. This personally affected me (and I bought directly from the outlet).
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Ally Hirschlag, Hakai Magazine
Oysters
The Severn River Association and Oyster Recovery Partnership want to get the oyster population in the Severn River near Annapolis full of oysters again. It’s one part of the larger Chesapeake Bay Program, which wants to restore oysters to the Severn and 10 tributaries by 2025. As of the 2010s, the wild oyster populations in the upper part of the Chesapeake Bay were 0.3 percent of what they once were, which has a distinct impact on the environment as a whole because an adult oyster can filter 190 liters of water per day. To do this, boats will inject 24 million baby oysters into a river in a single afternoon through firehoses. So far, the Chesapeake Bay Program has restored 324 hectares of oysters, and 96 percent of the reefs have at least 15 oysters per square meter, a threshold of success.Ally Hirschlag, Hakai Magazine