The Eastern oyster, Atlantic oyster, or the Virginia oyster, Crassostrea virginica, is a species of oyster that is native to the eastern seaboard and Gulf of Mexico coast of North America. It is also farmed in Puget Sound, Washington, where it is known as the Totten Inlet Virginica. Eastern oysters are and have been very popular commercially. Today it is thought that less than 1% of the original population that existed in the Chesapeake Bay and
