NETARTS, Ore. — It was such a delicacy, Oregon's only native oyster was harvested to near extinction more than a century ago.
But after years of hard work, the Olympia oyster is once again thriving off the coast. The recovery took eight years, but today Netarts Bay is once again home to as many as five million Olympia oysters.
A small oyster that, decades ago, was the premier oyster in the Pacific Northwest.
The recovery project was led by the Nature Conservancy. The group partnered with the Whiskey Creek Shellfish Hatchery near Tillamook, which raised the baby Olympia oysters.
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