Jul 20 2009
150 years of oyster farming
By Will Seymour, Sports Editor, Headlight-Herald, tillamookheadlightherald.com
The Tillamook and Netarts bays are renowned for their oysters, which today are produced almost exclusively by commercial farming operations.
Of course, native oysters were a fixture in Tillamook County well before “farming” them began. In 1859, the shanty town Oyster Bay settlement was born south of Whiskey Creek, near the current Whiskey Creek Oyster Hatchery. Soon after, harvesting native oysters in Netarts was a thriving business.