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Ready to eat

These succulent Pacific rock oysters are presented in their half shells, ready to be eaten raw or cooked. They were grown by Clevedon Coast Oysters, one of New Zealand’s largest oyster farms, producing 400,000 dozen oysters annually.

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Clevedon Coast Oysters

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Maggy Wassilieff, Aquaculture – Oysters and scallops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/4761/ready-to-eat (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 2 March 2009.