About
Owners John and Anne Louden have owned the Coromandel Oyster Company since February 2007.
They have, what is described as a vertically integrated business where they catch and farm wild oysters then harvest, process and distribute nationwide as well as retail through their quaint little oyster shack on the main highway into Coromandel town.
Visitors enjoy fresh seafood and hot food overlooking the harbour.
Oysters and mussels are also sold through their online shop and delivered nationwide.
The main oyster farm is 2 hectares behind the shop (lease 310) an inter-tidal area that at any given time there is around 40,000 on the farm.
There is also a sub-tidal mussel long-line where they grow oysters in deeper water, and an inter-tidal 8 ha ‘nursery farm’ on the East Coast in Whangapoua.