Croagh Patrick Seafoods & Tours, County Mayo offers a fully guided tour of how oysters are grown and the history of fishing on the shores of Clew Bay.
Croagh Patrick Seafoods & Tours is a family business producing Clew Bay native oysters, Pacific oysters, mussels and clams in County Mayo. For a quarter of a century the Gannon family has produced shellfish in mari-culture sites on the shores of Clew Bay beside Croagh Patrick for which the company is named.
Padraic offers a fully guided tour on the shore of Clew Bay. He will tell the story of the history of fishing on Clew Bay, how the oysters are cultivated today, how the oyster seed is grown and what husbandry is involved. Walk along the shoreline to see how the oysters are grown.
As part of the tour visitors get to sample a Clew Bay oyster fresh from the bay.
