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Artwork: Ranger
Alf Smythers TO17
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Yes you’re included in the 2012 edition and you have also been named the
'Best Fish and Seafood Producer for 2012'
at the front of the book. Congratulations!
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Treat yourself and your partner to Valentine's Night Oysters
Order early and book a delivery date for either:
Friday 10th February - Perfect for the Saturday
Tuesday 14th February - Freshest Oysters for Valentine's Night
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New logistics partners, Cornish Food Market.co.uk and West Country Fruit Sales can deliver FREE to any TR or PL postcode, our fresh Cornish Native Oysters for next day delivery if you order before 12noon... buy local food
usual terms and conditions apply
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2012 dates are set...
Friday 30th Saturday 31st March and Sunday 1st April
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You may also like to celebrate the start of British Summer Time at the
Flushing Oyster & Fish Festival
The Waterside, Flushing Quay, Falmouth
Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th March
Call 01326 373734 for more details
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At Cornish Native Oysters we gather 'Fal Oysters', which are thought to have been found since the earliest trading with the Phoenicians and were widely grown around the coast when the Romans occupied Britain. For hundreds of years they were seen as a food for the poor who would gather the plankton-feeding bivalves from the muddy banks of creeks and rivers at low tide. In 1298 they sold for 2d (less than 1p) a gallon and were cheap in comparison with other fish.
By the time Sir Richard Carew published the Survey of Cornwall in 1602, oysters were being caught using dredges “a thick strong net fastened to three spills of iron, and drawn to the boat’s stern, gathering whatsoever it meeteth lying in the bottom of the water, out of which, when it is taken up, they cull the oyster and cast away the residue, which they term gard, and serveth as a bed for the oysters to breed in.” In Carew’s time oysters were abundant around the Cornish shoreline, now they are only found in the Fal, Percuil, Helford, Fowey and Camel rivers; the Fal has the last wild oyster beds, in the other rivers both native and Pacific oysters are re-laid and farmed. The Fal Oysters are slow maturing, taking up to five years to grow to a marketable size, and is thought to have a far superior flavour to the faster growing Pacific oysters (crassostrea gigas also sometimes known as rock oysters).
http://www.england-in-particular.info/goods/g-case4-04.html
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As recommended in the London Oyster Guide 2011
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If DEFRA impose EU Fishing License Law's (as opposed to Domestic 'Under 10m Enginless Vessel Exemption),
the last sailing fleet in the world will be scupper'd
Follow the story at
Traditional Methods - Prospects
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Photo: Francis Monnier
Cornish Native Oysters served at The 'Front
Oyster 'Wink' 2009
(Serving Suggestion)
To celebrate the "Penny for the Grotta" or the start of the native oyster season,
Cornish Native Oysters had an 'Oyster Gathering' on the
13th-16th October 2011 at
The 'Front and Waterman's Gallery on
Customs House Quay
(below Trago Mills and Harbour Lights, Falmouth)
Download the postcard for the two annual events
in October and March
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Oyster Gatherers - Then & Now
A Shortfilm by Christopher Ranger & Dan Norman
... buy the Double Bill DVD
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Du Hag Owr - The Hera
New CD Now Available at the Online Shop or Direct from the bands website Includes 'Oystermen' and 'By The Glow of St Anthony's Light' Songs written for the Oyster Gatherers - Then & Now DVD...
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Buy your 'Cornish Native' t-shirts, hoodies and
Limited Edition Newlyn Fishermans Smocks
supporting 'Oysters From The Fal' also online
at the secure shop... while stocks last!
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