Hatchery · Peconic Bay
Conscience Point Shellfish
Registered nonprofit hatchery at North Sea Harbor growing oyster and clam seed for Southampton's waters and selling seed on to…
Southampton · Tours available
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Oyster farms, raw bars and the Peconic merroir, from the bays to your plate.
- Peconic Bay 13
- Gardiners Bay 3
- Shinnecock Bay 2
- Southold Bay 2
- Lake Montauk 1
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- Farm + raw bar on site
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The Peconics grow some of the best oysters on the Atlantic. Visit the farmers.
All oyster spots- Merroir · Why they taste like this
- Salinity, minerals, algae
- R-months · The old raw rule
- September–April
- Bay scallops · 1985 brown tide
- Collapsed, still recovering
Hatcheries in Southold, Montauk and North Sea reseed the wild beds with millions of juveniles a year · most working farms take visitors by appointment · wear boots, bring cash, plan to get wet
6 spots
Southampton · 2 spots
- Education · Shinnecock BayStony Brook University — School of Marine & Atmospheric SciencesThe Southampton Marine Sciences Center, home of Stony Brook's Shinnecock Bay Restoration Program — five million clams planted and 117…SouthamptonVisit website
Wainscott · 1 spot
- Fish market · Peconic BayThe Seafood ShopWainscott fish counter, fifty years and thriving — oysters by the dozen, lobster rolls and the day's catch to take…WainscottVisit website
Amagansett · 2 spots
- Raw bar · Gardiners BayClam Bar at NapeagueRoadside fish shack on Napeague, east of Amagansett and west of Montauk — forty-five years of fried clams and lobster…AmagansettVisit website
- Fish market · Gardiners BayStuart's Seafood MarketAmagansett's neighbourhood fish market, open 9 to 8 every day — local flounder, fluke and striped bass plus lobsters and…AmagansettVisit website
Montauk · 1 spot
- Hatchery · Lake MontaukEast Hampton Town Shellfish HatcheryMunicipal hatchery on Fort Pond Bay that plants seed clams, oysters and scallops into Lake Montauk, Napeague, Three Mile and…Montauk · Tours availableVisit website
2 spots
Shelter Island · 2 spots
- Fish market · Peconic BayPeeko Outpost on Shelter IslandPeeko's Shelter Island collection point, a few hundred metres up from the North Ferry slip.Shelter IslandVisit website
- Fish market · Southold BaySouthold Bay Oysters - Shelter Island StandA self-serve oyster stand in the gardens at Grady Riley, open Saturdays and Sundays: you take a bag of Southold…Shelter IslandVisit website
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Hampton Bays · 1 spot
- Fish market · Shinnecock BayLighthouse SeafoodHampton Bays dockside seafood market right on Shinnecock Canal — off the boat to the counter.Hampton BaysVisit website
Westhampton · 1 spot
- Oyster farm · Peconic BayHappy Oyster CompanyBart and Toni-Jo Birk grow in the Great Peconic and sell out of a cold-chain cooler on Montauk Highway that…WesthamptonVisit website
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Cutchogue · 2 spots
- Fish market · Peconic BayBraun Seafood Co.Cutchogue seafood house, family-owned for nearly a hundred years — wholesale, a retail fish market open daily, and Braun's Kitchen…CutchogueVisit website
- Oyster farm · Peconic BayPeconic Gold OystersCaptain Matt Ketcham's ten-acre plot on a shallow bank in the Great Peconic, where iron off the Peconic River is…CutchogueVisit website
New Suffolk · 1 spot
- Oyster farm · Peconic BayPeeko OystersNorth Fork farm founded by Peter Stein in 2016, growing Peekos off New Suffolk for New York's top raw bars.New Suffolk · Tours availableVisit website
Southold · 5 spots
- Oyster farm · Gardiners BayLittle Ram Oyster Co.Women-owned farm run by Stefanie and Elizabeth, growing Little Rams in Gardiners Bay, with a farmstand on Soundview Ave.Southold · Tours availableVisit website
- Education · Peconic BayCornell Cooperative Extension Marine ProgramSuffolk County's public aquaculture program — runs the Cedar Beach shellfish hatchery and scallop restoration.Southold · Tours availableVisit website
- Fish market · Peconic BaySouthold Fish MarketNorth Fork fish market selling local oysters, clams, and the day's catch — with a takeout lobster roll.SoutholdVisit website
- Oyster farm · Southold BaySouthold Bay OystersDeep-water farm growing Southold Shindig oysters in the middle of Southold Bay, members of the Long Island Oyster Growers Association…Southold · Tours availableVisit website
- Oyster farm · Peconic BayFounders Oyster FarmRack-and-bag farm a few degrees north-west of Shelter Island, working the Peconic's tidal flow, NYS Grown & Certified.Southold · Tours availableVisit website
Greenport · 3 spots
- Oyster farm · Peconic BayWidow's Hole Oyster FarmFamily farm run by Mike and Isabel Osinski, two decades on the East End, cultivating oysters in Widow's Hole off…Greenport · Tours availableVisit website
- Raw bar · Peconic BayLittle Creek Oyster Farm & MarketGreenport oyster bar, now on Carpenter Street — the menu turns with the season but there are always oysters.GreenportVisit website
Greenport · 3 spots
Photo: Mike Peel (CC BY-SA 4.0), via Wikimedia Commons Raw bar · Peconic BayClaudio'sGreenport waterfront restaurant, bar and marina, established 1870, with dockage for boats up to 120 feet.GreenportVisit website