WHOLESALE "Holy Smoly" Olympia Oysters from Similk Bay

“This is the best oyster in the world.” - Salinity SeaEO Emily Wilder & almost everyone she’s ever seen eat them. These wonderful oysters have a deceptively tiny size for their value - like the essence of the Pacific Northwest distilled into a tiny morsel. As much complexity as the finest single malt scotch! You can practically taste the forest in this tiny little sweet coppery oceany bite. And the colors inside the Olympia shells are the prettiest of all the edible oysters grown in North America. This is a slow-growing oyster native to the Puget Sound and West Coast of North America. Only a few farms grow them now, and very few exist in the wild anymore after they were almost wiped out by pollution and over-harvesting in the late 1800s and early 1900s - but Puget Sound Restoration Fund is working to change that! ALL oysters provide valuable hiding spots and water filtration services to their ecosystem, so the more the merrier. Grown by the Swinomish Tribe in Similk Bay in northern