Colchester Oyster Fishery Ltd

23/07/2026

Good news for lobster lovers, native lobster season is in full swing.

We're marking the occasion with a sale on our small lobsters while the season's at its peak:

🦞 2 Small Cooked Lobsters for £38 (save £17)
🦞 2 Small Dressed Lobsters for £42 (save £17)

Nothing to enter at checkout, just pop two in your basket and the price adjusts itself.

Torn between the two? Cooked arrives whole, so you get the full ritual of cracking the claws and picking the meat yourself. Dressed is done for you: meat out, dressed, and presented neatly back in the shell, ready to go.

Lobster also freezes well, so if you fancy putting one aside for another day, go for dressed, it freezes better than cooked.

Shop the special here: https://colchesteroysterfishery.com/collections/lobsters

22/07/2026

𝗕𝗿𝗮 𝗼𝗳𝗳, 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗸𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻… 🦪🚚✨

Let’s face it, that is the ultimate Friday night ritual the second the front door slams 🚪 or the caravan keys turn 🔑 after a long drive home over the Strood 🚗💨. Nobody wants to put real clothes back on, nobody wants to stand over a hot cooker 🍳, and nobody wants to head back out to brave the queues just to get a decent feed 🍽️.

Luckily, the legendary crew over at Colchester Oyster Fishery Ltd completely understand this beautiful level of weekend laziness 🦥. They have officially jumped on board as our new Pearl First Mate to support our independent online guides, and they have just launched the most spectacular, hassle-free Friday night treat:

📦 𝗙𝗥𝗘𝗘 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗜𝘀𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆!
You can now get their spectacular, luxury fresh seafood platters delivered completely free of charge right here on Mersea every single Friday! 🦀 platters Piled high with pristine local catches, these show-stopping feasts are the absolute definition of an effortless weekend night in 🥂.

These guys literally spend their lives harvesting our world-famous native oysters and the finest shellfish supplying to top chefs everywhere, straight from the island's pristine deep waters—and now they are bringing that luxury straight to your sofa 🛋️.

They have a massive, jaw-dropping selection of different platters and fresh catches ready to order 🦞. You can literally open your front door in a dressing gown and take delivery of a world-class feast 👑. Don't worry, the drivers have seen it all before and promise not to judge the outfit 🧥!

🚨 𝗤𝘂𝗶𝗰𝗸 𝗛𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗶𝗽: Because our local holiday parks are securely gated, the drivers will meet everyone right at the main park entrance or reception area on Friday ⛺. Just wander down in your trackies and crocs, grab the platter, and sprint back to the lodge before your caravan neighbours spot the footwear 🐊🤫!

Having such an iconic local name supporting the online guides makes it much easier to keep these big roadmaps detailed and running, so everyone can click straight through to check out their pristine daily catches or pre-order a spectacular weekend night in! ✨

Please join in giving them a massive, warm welcome and tag a seafood lover who needs a Friday platter sorted! 👆

🔗 The link to check out their full profile, browse the platters, and pre-order a Friday feast is waiting in the first comment below!



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20/07/2026

🦞🦪 We're now delivering to Mersea every Friday…and it's FREE 🦞🦪

From this Friday, Colchester Oyster Fishery is bringing fresh seafood platters straight to your door, with free delivery on our dedicated Friday afternoon Mersea round. Including to the holiday parks!

Every platter is built by hand on the day it goes out, right here at the fishery, a proper selection of the best seafood we can get our hands on.

Whether you're after something simple for two or a full spread for a table of eight, we've got a platter to match, arriving plated up and ready to serve. Prices and the full lineup are on our website.

Fancy adding something extra? Just let us know when you order and we'll build any platter to suit you.

📍 Fridays only, free delivery to Mersea

🕒 Order by 4pm Thursday for Friday delivery

🌐 colchesteroysterfishery.com/collections/seafood-platters

📞 01206 384141

✉️ [email protected]

Luxury seafood platters delivered to your home. We only select the finest quality seafood for our seafood platters, freshly cooked lobsters, dressed Cromer crabs, oysters from our own river and lots more. With six platters to choose from, we have the perfect seafood platter for you.

11/07/2026

We had the pleasure of showing Anita and Country File our oyster farm. If you’d like to discover more about our oyster farm and oysters, it’s on BBC 2 this Sunday at 7pm.

16/06/2026

Have you ever wondered how we grow oysters? We supplement our wild oysters with oyster seed, which is small oysters that we buy from other farms that specialise in growing oyster seed for oyster farms just like us.

09/03/2026

I think it’s going to be a long day out on the river.

09/03/2026

26/02/2026

Our pot of gold is a boat load of oysters!

23/02/2026

How do you like yours?

Do you like your lobster cooked to perfection and left whole so you can have the fun of breaking it down to eat, or would do you take your lobster dressed and ready to eat?

21/02/2026

This might look like a pretty uninteresting picture but it's really quite special.

This clay pipe came up in the dredge this week, judging by the size of the bowl it's probably from the 18th century. The smaller the bowl the older the pipe, as the size of the bowl increased as to***co became cheaper.

The pipe stem would have started about 30cm long, over time bits of the stem broke off and when it became as short as this one, it would have been too hot to hold, so thrown over the side of the boat.

What made this extra special for me, was that the last person who held the pipe, some 300 years ago, was out on the river probably doing the same job I was doing, dredging oysters.