• Kooringal Oysters ("KO") is a family company, farming rock oysters in the clean oceanic waters of outer Moreton Bay, Queensland. Known scientifically as Saccostrea glomerata, this rock oyster is unique to Australia, and prized for its flavour and texture.
• The 'tyranny of distance' works to our advantage......Our oysters work where you like to play. The oyster leases are on intertidal sandbanks in the Moreton Bay Marine Park, on the western shores of Moreton Island, which is a National Park. We chose this unique Marine Park and Island location to ensure minimum human impact, and a unique, high quality product. As co users of the Marine National Park and producers of a food we must remain mindful of our environmental responsibilities.

• Our stock is hatchery seed, farmed using the BST Longline system developed in South Australia. This encourages the oyster to develop a great shape for table presentation, and allows use of management techniques to achieve better meat / shell ratios, and prevent overcatch.

• "Kooringals" are farmed through their whole life cycle in Moreton bay Marine Park waters. The resulting quality and 'dense, complex flavour are unique, and differentiate the local rock oyster from estuary grown rock oysters and the faster growing introduced species Crassostrea gigas, known as the pacific oyster. Cultivation of this species is not permitted in Queensland waters . The pacific oyster variety is produced in South Australia, Tasmania and some areas of NSW where disease has devastated production of the endemic rock oyster.
  

• "Slow food".....Rock oysters take from 2.5 to 3.5 years to reach marketable size.

• From time to time the oysters feed on navicular ostrearia as it comes in on the currents. This diatom has a blue pigment which can be held in the mantle of the oyster and gives it a greenish tinge. Click the link for more nfomation.

"He who loves without oysters does not truly love."
1 Anon, 15th Century