Your Cornish Native Oysters are naturally harvested on the Port of Truro Oyster & Mussel Fishery, gathered by hand hauling traditional small dredges onboard the Alf Smythers and oyster punts Badger & Peter Mayes, graded to perfection by eye, purified in an approved environment, packaged personally by the crew, ordered by phone or online, delivered to you by reliable fish merchants in chilled packaging.

Photo: Ranger
Alf Smythers on a Mylor mooring

Mylor Harbour is the home to the majority of licenced working boats and thanks to the generosity of Roger Graffy it is also the location of the CEFAS approved purification centre of Cornish Native Oysters.

Geographical Area: The area where the Cornish Native Oyster or Fal Oyster is produced 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