Foveaux Strait Delicacy · Wild Dredge Oyster
Bluff Oysters
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They come from New Zealand's oldest commercial fishery, dredged wild from the same Foveaux Strait beds fishermen have worked since the 1860s.
Bluff oysters are dredged wild from the cold, fast-moving waters of Foveaux Strait and eaten raw, straight from the shell, prized for a meatier, more intense flavour than farmed oysters elsewhere in the country. Southland's fish shops and the annual Bluff Oyster Festival serve them by the dozen each autumn.
Why it's made this way: Oystering built the small port town of Bluff, and a strict seasonal quota — the fishery runs only from March to August — has kept the wild beds sustainable since a closed season was first declared back in 1877.
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