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	Oyster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Oysters are low in food energy; one dozen raw oysters contain approximately 110 calories (0.460 kJ), and are rich in zinc, iron, calcium, and vitamin A.
		"Dermo" (Perkinsus marinus) is marine disease of oysters, caused by a protozoan parasite.
		It is a prevalent pathogen of oysters, causing massive mortality in oyster populations and poses a significant economic threat to the oyster industry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oyster (2016 words)

	Olympia Oyster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Olympia oyster (Ostreola conchaphila) is the native oyster of the Pacific coast of North America from Alaska to Mexico.
		The name is derived from the important 19th century oyster industry near Olympia, Washington, in Puget Sound.
		Species restoration projects for the Olympia Oyster funded by the U.S. Government are active in Puget Sound and San Francisco Bay.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olympia_oyster (241 words)

	Oyster - MSN Encarta
		The oyster feeds on microorganisms that are brought into the shell with the current produced by the movement of the cilia and sorted out by the labial palps before they reach the mouth.
		The European oyster and the Olympia oyster of the American Pacific Coast are hermaphrodites—that is, their reproductive organs contain both eggs and sperm.
		The European oyster is classified as Ostrea edulis, the Olympia oyster as Ostrea lurida, and the American bluepoint oyster as Crassostrea virginica.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/refarticle.aspx?refid=761559707 (639 words)

	WDFW - Shellfish Regulations: Clams Crabs Oysters
		Olympia oysters grow to 3-1/2 inches in diameter and are found on mud-gravel flats, in tide pools with fresh water seepage in intertidal zones to a depths of 165 feet.
		Oysters are famous for their nutritional qualities: they are rich in proteins, vitamins and such trace elements as iron, iodine, copper, phosphorous, cobalt, and manganese, which individually or in combination are essential contributors to a healthy body.
		Oysters are usually not marketed during the summer because this is the reproductive season of the bivalve and so much of its substance is expended in producing eggs and sperm that the meats are often too thin and watery for marketing.
	wdfw.wa.gov /fish/shelfish/beachreg/3clam.htm (1904 words)

	Washington Grown Oysters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Originally called the native western oyster, it was renamed the Olympia a century ago.
		Olympia had been the territorial capital, but other cities east and west of the Cascade Mountains also put in their claim.
		The clincher was an oyster dinner served after the meetings that "created a warmth and friendly spirit." Olympia won the election and from that time on, the oysters were known as Olympia oysters.
	www.wsg.washington.edu /oysterstew/cool/oystername.html (160 words)

	Olympia Oyster
		Oysters usually inhabit low tidelands or estuaries that remain inundated with water during low tide, although they also can be found on the undersides of floats and on pilings.
		Though oyster growers strove to maintain and enhance the water quality of the tidelands that sustained their oyster-beds, unregulated effluent from surrounding pulp and paper mills before the 1950's played a large part in the declines of the Olympic oyster.
		In the southern Puget Sound region, Olympia oyster populations continue to be threatened by pollution from motorboats, pulp mills and wastewater discharge.
	www.pacificbio.org /ESIN/OtherInvertebrates/OlympiaOyster/OlympiaOyster_pg.html (428 words)

	The Seattle Times: Local News: Tribe celebrates Olympia oyster's rebound
		The tiny, tasty oyster once covered south Puget Sound beaches, a staple in the diet and economy of local Indian tribes before pollution drove it to the brink of extinction during the 20th century.
		Olympia oysters the tribe planted two years ago have spawned a successful wild-oyster bed.
		For tribal members, saving the Olympia oysters may be the key to preserving an important part of their culture.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/localnews/2002028379_oysters07m.html (772 words)

	CuisineNet Digest: Kinds of Oysters
		It seems that the only known type of Ostrea Lurida is the Olympia, an oyster that is native to the Pacific Northwest of the United States, and that is mostly associated with the waters of Puget Sound in Washington State.
		Although the oysters native to the region were depleted by the settlers there in the late 18th century, the area was quickly and successfully restocked with oysters from nearby areas and has remained a strong producer ever since.
		The shells of the oysters have distinctive purple streaks, and its flesh is tinged with purple at the muscle scar.
	www.cuisinenet.com /digest/ingred/oyster/types.shtml (835 words)

	Washington - Woodard Bay Conservation Lease
		Olympia, WA—October 26, 2005—A first-in-the-nation conservation lease of submerged lands was announced today by The Nature Conservancy of Washington and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, ushering in a promising new tool for marine conservation and setting the stage for important restoration of the marine environment.
		With the restoration of Olympia oysters, an important element of a more complex and healthier aquatic community will be returned to the bay—one that will provide food for species such as diving ducks, and will provide reef habitat for crabs, fish and other animals.
		Olympia oysters were harvested by native people and early settlers and were once abundant in Puget Sound.
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/press/press2143.html (986 words)

	Captain Doanes Oyster Pan Roast
		When the Captain came to Olympia to stay in 1880 and saw the limitless acres of oysters to be had for the taking on all the tidelands, he opened a little place on the north side of Fifth Street, just off Main Street, now Capitol Way.
		A Pan Roast required a large cupful of oysters, frizzled in four tablespoonfuls of melted butter, a cupful of tomato catsup, one tablespoonful of Worcestershire sauce, one scant teaspoonful of Tabasco, salt and pepper, poured piping hot over oven toast.
		Olympia, still the home of the Olympia oyster, preserves its tradition of Captain Doane's Pan Roast, but it is served in a modern setting, its picture windows framing an enchanting view of placid Puget Sound with shores and islands dark with evergreen forests, its horizon bounded by the sharp whiteness of the soaring Olympic Mountains.
	olympiahistory.org /texts/Funk_doanes.html (1545 words)

	Pacific Oyster (farmed)
		All oyster farms on the west coast use a combination of on-bottom and suspension methods to farm oysters.
		Olympia Oysters (Ostrea lurida) are the native oyster species in the Pacific Northwest, where Pacific Oysters are now farmed.
		Oyster drills are currently kept under control by manually removing them, and by prohibiting the transfer of anything from areas where oyster drills have been identified (Downey, pers.
	www.blueoceaninstitute.org /seafood/species/69.html (2971 words)

	California Wild Fall 2004 - Horizons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Known as Olympia oysters after Washington's Olympic Peninsula, the shells of the largest grew to the size of a silver dollar.
		Restoring oysters to a semblance of their former strength could be instrumental for natives struggling against the tsunami of exotic species that has invaded the bay.
		The oyster population that filtered the volume of the entire bay in a few days has dwindled to the point where it cleans the Chesapeake roughly once a year.
	www.calacademy.org /calwild/2004fall/stories/horizons.html (1669 words)

	Environment -The Olympian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		He's also stringing Olympia oyster shells and hanging them on four-legged steel frames that are immersed in the water as the tide comes in.
		One of the goals of the shell strings is to find out when Olympia oysters reproduce and whether the free-floating larvae of Olympia oysters will attach to the shells.
		He also checked a few Pacific oyster shells to chronicle survival rates of the Olympia planted on the beach in 2002 and 2003.
	www.theolympian.com /home/specialsections/Environment/20040719/100462.shtml (617 words)

	Oysters Bounce Back / Prized mollusk may have returned to S.F. Bay 130 years after vanishing
		Fragments of Olympia oyster shells have been recovered in Bay Area Indian middens, and the species was therefore considered significant to the shellfish-rich diet of local natives.
		Bay Area oyster lovers were saved by the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1869, which allowed for the importation of American oyster ``seed'' -- young oysters that are almost microscopic in size -- from the East Coast.
		The small Olympia oyster, which is native to San Francisco Bay and the West Coast, is celebrated for its delicate flavor and texture.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1999/02/04/MN72824.DTL (1296 words)

	Oysters: How to get these bivalve beauties, and all 10 fingers, safely home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Their evocative flavor defines the ebb and flow of the sea, and millions are scattered across the state's public beaches, ready for the plucking when the tide draws low to anyone with a shellfish license and the inclination.
		These oysters can be huge, growing to more than 12 inches, and offer a rich, intense flavor, vaguely sweet and reflective of their environment -- too intense for many people.
		The native species is the Olympia oyster (Ostrea conchaphila), smaller at 3 inches maximum and depressed by commercial overharvest and pollution beginning in the early 1900s.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /getaways/262895_oysters16.html (1682 words)

	The Seattle Times: Sports: Notebook: Olympia oysters slowly returning
		In 2002, the Skokomish Tribe planted Olympia oysters in plots throughout the Skokomish River estuary in hopes of revitalizing the tasty, small-sized native oysters.
		The Olympia oyster nearly vanished in Puget Sound in the mid-1800s, as demand throughout the West Coast for the tasty shellfish was great.
		The parent oysters for the Skokomish Tribe's project were collected from beaches along Hood Canal and spawned at a state shellfish laboratory in 2002.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/sports/2001971699_outn04.html (1071 words)

	Restoring oysters' world good for bays' health / Effort to re-establish shellfish may help clear the waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		In an effort to bring back the native populations, researchers are placing oyster arrays -- a bundle of 18 4-foot- long polypropylene bags filled with oyster shells and kept in place by small boat anchors -- in the subtidal mud of Tomales and San Francisco bays.
		Regeneration of Olympia oysters also suffered with the introduction of larger Eastern oysters starting in 1869 when the transcontinental railroad was completed and, in the 1930s, Pacific oysters.
		The native oyster restoration program, which began last summer, is now one of several collaborative efforts to reduce erosion, pollution and enhance the local marine environment.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/04/28/MN224095.DTL (1755 words)

	NWIFC
		The snail eats oysters after boring through their shells, devastating some Olympia oyster populations.
		“Olympia oysters took advantage of our pristine bays and beaches for centuries, growing and evolving into an important food source,” said Jim Peters, natural resources director for the tribe.
		One of the options the tribe is considering is using the oyster drill’s own life history against it.
	www.nwifc.wa.gov /newsinfo/newsrelease.asp?ID=133 (765 words)

	Oysters
		Oysters are still very popular, though nowadays their journey to the local restaurants and markets is not too long.
		Native to Tomales Bay is the Olympia oyster or ostrea lurida.
		When the oysters reach an inch in size, they are transferred into heavy plastic mesh bags, tied to metal racks that keep the bags floating free in the tidal waters of the bay.
	www.pointreyesvisions.com /NewFiles/PRV_Book/Oysters.html (943 words)

	Oyster
		Generalized Anatomy of an Oyster enclosed within a thick, sturdy shell, the soft body of an oyster is adapted for filtering minute planktonic organisms from the surrounding water.
		Beds of American blue point oysters are found along the eastern coast of the continent.
		Chesapeake Bay is the largest oyster-producing body of water in the world, although many of its oyster beds have been depleted through over fishing or pollution.
	www.smithpointseafood.com /Oyster.htm (656 words)

	OlyO
		It was the smaller, native Olympia oyster that created this area's reputation, and it is that same oyster that is poised to make a comeback.
		Barker said there are scattered populations of Olympia oysters in Hood Canal and small populations in Grays Harbor and Willapa Bay.
		If the native oysters do return to harvestable populations, it will be unlikely that the commercial oysters industry will switch back to the harvesting Olympia oysters, Barker said.
	www.tidepool.org /archives/OlyO.html (948 words)

	SKAGIT VALLEY HERALD.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		ANACORTES - By joining the efforts to restore the long-lost native Olympia oyster, Samish Nation students are planting a future based in ecology.
		Olympia oysters are Puget Sound's only native oyster.
		The oysters also will be examined in a lab, she said.
	www.skagitvalleyherald.com /articles/2003/08/12/news/news01.txt (692 words)

	Oyster, Food Resource [http://food.oregonstate.edu/], Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
		Samish Bay oysters have wide, almost fan-shaped shells, Hood Canal oysters are smaller and straighter, with deep cups.
		Samish Bay oysters tend to be salty, Hood Canal oysters are sweet and oysters raised in southern Puget Sound and Willapa Bay are pleasant redolent of algae and mud.
		Farming the cupped oysters of the genus Crassostrea : a multidisciplinary treatise / P. korringa.
	food.oregonstate.edu /f/oyster.html (1225 words)

	Washington - Woodard Bay
		The Nature Conservancy is coordinating the distribution of Olympia oyster shells in Woodard Bay in an attempt to lure more of these native shellfish to the area.
		The Olympia oyster, Washington’s only native oyster, is both culturally and ecologically important.
		“Olympia oysters are a keystone species in the nearshore ecosystem with a rich history that has touched the lives of tribal members, shellfish growers, and residents for many generations,” said Betsy Peabody, executive director of the
	www.nature.org /wherewework/northamerica/states/washington/preserves/art16539.html (360 words)

	NWIFC
		To satisfy a voracious demand for shellfish, Olympia oysters were harvested in great numbers in the mid-1800s.
		As the Olympia oyster began to disappear, the shellfish industry began importing Japanese Pacific oysters to the region.
		The Olympia was not only an important source of food for the coastal Indians in the area, but the oyster also was a valuable trading item.
	www.nwifc.wa.gov /newsinfo/newsrelease.asp?ID=140 (685 words)

	WDFW - Shellfish Regulations: Why shuck oysters on the beach?
		Consequently, removing Pacific oyster shells reduces the potential for native Olympia oysters to set on the beach.
		Removing large, edible-sized Pacific oyster shells from a beach invariably removes tiny Pacific and Olympia oysters which are attached to the larger shells.
		The surest way to prevent oyster drills or their eggs leaving an infected beach is to require oyster shells to remain on the beach.
	wdfw.wa.gov /fish/shelfish/beachreg/shuck.htm (339 words)

	Olympia Oyster Company - Recipes
		Slice oysters in small slices and saute in butter for a few minutes, push oysters to one side of pan and blend in flour; gradually blend in oyster broth; add rest of seasonings, and cook until thick.
		Bring oysters to a boil with a bayleaf in water.
		Dip oysters in egg mixture and then in cracker crumbs and fry in hot fat (bacon drippings preferred) until golden brown.
	www.olympiaoyster.com /recipes.htm (406 words)

	10 foods that make America great - Food - MSNBC.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Tiny Olympia oysters are a delicacy that almost vanished forever.
		Olympias are still being harvested in miniscule numbers, though a similar restoration is under way in San Francisco Bay and aquatic conservationists like the Blue Ocean Institute are optimistic.
		The oyster itself is a diminutive gem, from the size of a quarter to a half-dollar, subtle and slightly sweet when eaten raw, with an occasional metallic bite at the end.
	www.msnbc.msn.com /id/7279844/did/8392312/page/10 (403 words)

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