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Geographical Area:
The area where the wild Cornish Native Oyster or Fal Oyster is gathered can be described as within
the Truro Port Fishery. The legal limits of which are described in the
fishery order (1936 amended 1975) as all those parts of the Truro and
Falmouth Harbours and of the bed of the Truro, Fal and Tresillian
Rivers containing an area of 2721 acres (1,101 hectares) or
thereabouts.
This area can be described as north of a line drawn between Trefusis
Point and St Mawes Castle to Mean Low Water Mark of an Ordinary
Tide. The edge of the fishery is the Mean Low Water Mark and this
coincides with the coast except at the entrance of each creek indicating
the upper limits of the fishery at Mylor, St Just and Malpas.
The defined area is the only oyster fishery for ostrea edulis in the south
west of England.
Fal Oyster - protectedfoodnames@defra.gsi.gov.uk