42 Trending Oyster Farming Businesses [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: January 18th, 2023

Start An Oyster Farming Business

Oyster farming is not only a profitable business but also an excellent way to fight climate disruption and water pollution. Oysters take about 24 months to mature to market size. Oysters naturally grow in estuarine bodies of salty water. Farming oysters occur under controlled temperatures to induce spawning and fertilization.

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1. Midwest Grow Kits

Mushroom Growing Kits, Error Proof Mushroom Grow Kits and Premium Spawn Bags and Supplies. The Beginners Mushroom grow bags. Grow Mushrooms Like Magic with our easy to grow kits, jars, Manure Casing Mix and more! We pride ourselves in producing top quality products at a low affordable cost, so that anyone can venture into the magic world of mushrooms. We supply every customer with an easy to follow video grow guide which covers everything from how to set up your mushroom kit to the best and most effective way on how to grow!

Where they're located: Hollywood, Kentucky, USA
Website traffic: 120K/month

2. Island Creek Oysters

We grow the world’s finest oysters and have a damn good time doing it. Harvested daily and shipped overnight from Duxbury Bay to your kitchen. From your back deck to the country’s best restaurants – we do what we love and we love what we do, and it shows.

Where they're located: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

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4. Hog Island Oyster

Where they're located: Stockton, California, USA

5. Rappahannock Oyster Company

6. Pangea Shellfish Company

Pangea Shellfish is a distinguished wholesaler of premium oysters and shellfish. Crafting successful shellfish programs for distributors and raw bars since 2001.

Where they're located: Henderson, Nevada, USA

7. Tomales Bay Oyster Company

California's oldest shellfish farm providing farm fresh oysters clams and mussels from the cool clean waters of Tomales Bay and the Pacific Northwest.

Where they're located: Stockton, California, USA

8. The Oyster Farm

The Oyster Farm - Best Waterfront Restaurant & Seafood Eatery on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Full Service Marina, Event & Catering & Wedding Center, Vacation Rentals, Luxury Villas

Where they're located: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA

9. Forthright Oyster Bar & Kitchen

Where they're located: San Jose, California, USA

10. Hoopers Island Oysters

Oyster farming the watermen's way. Oyster aquaculture seed, grow-out gear, processing equipment & services. Premium oysters for wholesale and retail market.

Where they're located: Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA

11. NONESUCH OYSTERS

Just south of Portland, NONESUCH offers premium Maine oysters, sweet Maine lobsters, popular Maine Oyster Tasting Tours and luxurious Maine algae skincare.

Where they're located: Portland, Oregon, USA

12. Haw River Mushrooms

Haw River Mushrooms, LLC is a family owned mushroom farm based in Saxapahaw, NC, a renovated mill town in central North Carolina. We ship our popular mushroom jerky nationally, offer mushroom related workshops, and grow a variety of mushrooms for wholesale, market, CSA and direct to you.

Where they're located: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

13. Home

DELIVERY TO YOUR DOOR Delivery to Perth Delivery to your door on Thursday for $39 within 30km Perth CBD  (Joondalup to Hope Valley, East to Mahog...

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia

14. Fishers Island Oyster Farm

Growing premium Atlantic oysters on pristine Fishers Island, New York since 1981. We harvest daily and ship directly to chefs and consumers, offering the freshest, best tasting oysters imaginable.

15. White Stone Oyster Company

16. Drakes Bay Oyster Company

17. TheOysterFarmShop

The Oyster Farm Shop in American River, Kangaroo Island, is the farmgate for Kangaroo Island Shellfish, a working oyster farm showcasing local aquaculture and sustainable seafood. Enjoy freshly shucked oysters, try abalone and wild marron and so much more!

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia

18. Apalachicola Oysters

Apalachicola Oyster Company's local farm offers fresh retail and wholesale Apalachicola Oysters to visitors and seafood distributors. Please contact our hatchery for spat sales to commercial farmers and industry partners. www.gotspat.com

19. Hood Canal Oyster Co. Inc.

20. OysterLife

Oysterlife is a share farm and oyster farm consultancy. Our aim is to fully develop Oyster leases under management. Maximise the cultivation potential of Oyster farming infrastructure and provide farm owners with a profitable return on investment.

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia

21. Chadwick Creek Oysters

22. The Jolly Oyster

Specializing in Kumamoto oysters, we control the complete production cycle from farms to table. We offer an outstanding ‘Full Ocean’ experience from the cool waters of Baja California.

23. Moyasta Oysters

24. Oyster Farm Business Model

25. Hexcyl Systems Oyster Baskets

The home of Hexcyl Systems Oyster baskets, Shellfish Baskets and accessories for adjustable longline oyster farming and Flip Farming

26. Morro Bay Oyster Co.

Where they're located: Stockton, California, USA

27. Grassy Bar Oyster Co.

Where they're located: Stockton, California, USA

28. Mere Point Oyster Company

A Maine seafood and oyster supplier committed to sustainability and the local community. Available for shipping, pick-up, and delivery at markets, restaurants, and wholesale.

29. Mysite

Colin Wren Oysters: Fresh Single Seed Oyster Farming - Tuncurry/Forster. Oyster Supplier to Australian Market, Private Buyers & Wholesalers.

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia

30. oystersaustralia

Where they're located: South Australia, Australia

31. Shelley Farms Premium Oysters Co.

32. Shikat Bay Oysters

Shikat Bay Oysters offers Farm Raised Alaska Oysters Grown in the Clean Pollution free Cold Alaskan Waters of Southeast Alaska

Where they're located: Anchorage, Alaska, USA

33. Alaska's Best Shellf

Alaska's Best Shellfish's oysters are as fresh and Alaskan as they get! The northern-most oyster farm in the world, we know that the quality of our oysters depends on the quality of our oceans, so our sustainable mariculture practices ensure that our oysters are as crisp and clean as the waters they grow in.

Where they're located: Anchorage, Alaska, USA

34. Smithtown Seafood

Where they're located: Hollywood, Kentucky, USA

35. Prayer Mountain Farms – Upton, Kentucky Established 2014

Where they're located: Hollywood, Kentucky, USA

36. Jakolof Bay Oyster co.

Our Oysters are in prime condition, plump, clean, and firm. A benefit of slow, pristine, cold-water growth that prevents spawning and keeps bacteria that plague warm water oysters at bay. We are a small farm in Jakolof Bay, 7 miles south of Homer Alaska across Kachemak Bay on the southern tip of Kenai Peninsula, 220 miles south of Anchorage.

Where they're located: Anchorage, Alaska, USA