Our Oyster

“spawnless oysters all year round.”

Our oysters are premium high quality reflecting the look, taste and freshness expected from our customers and Australia’s best oyster growing area. It has excellent presentation, condition and a mild flavoursome taste.

There are not many food items in the world that evoke the question,

“How hungry did the first person have to be to eat that?”

If you are undaunted by the oyster’s rough, rock-hard, nearly-impossible-to-open shell, the undoubtedly famished first taster would find this seminal slurper a surprising reward with our oyster’s delicate, toothy texture, rich creamy flavor, and salty liquor high in calcium, iron, and protein. Admittedly, they’re not for everyone, but adventurous humans the world over have enjoyed oysters, raw and cooked, for thousands of years.

Although it is possible for food oysters to produce pearls, they should not be confused with actual pearl oysters, which are from a different family of bivalves. True oysters, which belong to the Ostreidae family, are found throughout the world’s oceans, usually in shallow waters and in colonies called beds or reefs. Ours of course are commercially grown and harvested by various methods such as the traditional rack and trays, oyster cylinders, hanging baskets etc. The Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas), is one of the most popular and heavily harvested species found from Japan to Washington state and as far south as Australia and the Pacific.

Our oyster shells are usually oval or pear-shaped, but will vary widely in form depending on how they are grown. They are generally whitish-gray in outer shell color, and their inside shell is usually a porcelain white. They have extremely strong adductor muscles to close their shells when threatened.

Oysters feed by extracting algae and other food particles from the water they are almost constantly drawing over their gills. They reproduce when the water warms by broadcast spawning, and will change gender once or more during their lifetime.

Commercial harvesting of our oysters is regulated throughout their range, and they are not currently listed as threatened or endangered. However, they are extremely sensitive to water quality and susceptible to coastal pollution, and populations in many areas where they were once abundant have dwindled or disappeared.