New Jersey Oyster Festival

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New Jersey Oyster Festival

Oct 18, 2025 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

2025 New Jersey Oyster Festival! October 18, 2025, 12 – 5 pm

Click here for tickets. $50 includes all you can eat raw oysters from local purveyors and a souvenir glass.

Julio’s on Main and Fat Boyz food trucks will be here, as well as offerings from The Oyster Cracker Café, and AJ’s Pub, for additional purchase.

Forth annual NJ Oyster Festival at The Bayshore Center at Bivalve, 2800 High Street, Port Norris, NJ 08349.

Our region has an amazing history and offers some of the finest oysters in the world!

Music by Steve Byrne, 12 – 1:30.

Steve Byrne’s love is Ragtime Blues guitar. His approach is pure and the result is the essence of this most American of music.

Music by Danny Paisley and The Southern Grass, 1:30 – 4pm

Danny Paisley and the Southern Grass play powerful, unadorned, and intense traditional bluegrass. There is no hybrid or genre-bending music here. Their combination of instrumentation and vocals convey the energy and emotion of classic bluegrass and country music.

Funding has been made possible in part by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts / Department of State and the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners through the Cumberland County Cultural and Heritage Commission.

Speakers Series will be held in the tent.

Education Speakers Series – Hear from the experts, be sure to schedule time to hear the educational
speakers located in the Huber Maritime Education Room in the Delaware Bay Museum. Barney
Hollinger, a 5th generation Port Norris oysterman will present “State of the Oyster Industry.” Barney
serves on the NJ Shellfish Council and State Board of Agriculture will reflect on the past year of the
oyster industry on the Delaware Bay including farm-raised and wild-caught. Edward “Ned” Gaines will
present “Leasing Our Waters for Shellfish,” Spanning over 100 years, gain a historical perspective of the
leasing of grounds throughout the entire New Jersey coastline for the use in shellfish cultivation. Paul
Coyne will present RU Informed About Oysters? with Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory. The
education speaker series will end with Lucia Osborne, Delaware Bayshore Program Director, “Using
Oyster Reefs to Restore the Delaware Bayshore with The American Littoral Society .” Hear about their
projects building oyster reefs to protect and restore the Delaware Bayshore. These projects
work to clean the water and help to stop the shoreline from washing away.