Cape Wrath Oysters

This artisanal, traditional oyster farm was founded in 2014 in the Kyle of Durness. Order online and Cape Wrath Oysters will send their fresh Pacific 'rock' oysters direct to your home, restaurant or shop, anywhere in the UK.

Every oyster farm and its produce is different, each influenced by the balance of sea and fresh water, the foods available to the oysters, the water chemistry, temperature, site characteristics and the weather.  These factors interplay to give Cape Wrath Oysters their own distinctive characteristics and sweet, briny flavour. Owners Lucy and Patrick both work in the seafood industry, focussing on sustainability and best practice seafood production. Between them, they have 50 years experience.

Oysters are amongst the most sustainable of seafoods.  As filter-feeding bivalve molluscs, they live low in their food chain, and the lower in these chains food comes from, the more plentiful, renewable and therefore sustainable it tends to be.  Oysters feed on naturally available single celled algae brought in on each tide.  They do not require any external feed inputs so the only food being used to grow the oysters is that which is naturally present in the sea.

Photos courtesy of Ann Chown & Patrick Blow