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# Northwest Oystermania | Bites
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/show/mossbacks-northwest-2/extras/northwest-oystermania-bites-rty3zo/
- Published: 2024-04-02T23:01:12.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-10T11:09:56.000Z
- Description: The Olympia oyster is the Pacific Coast's only indigenous oyster.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Mossback's Northwest, #ZZZ_Show_50744e68-2011-417f-9f73-f880b010d33f, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_394c72bd-3a71-45e2-96ac-8ad5adb70475, #extra

Tiny compared to other oysters, the Olympia was for decades raked out of Washington's beds by the ton, to feeding hungry gold diggers in California and Northwestern lumbermen.