Oyster Bay is an inlet in southern Puget Sound which branches off from Totten Inlet. The bay spans

Mason Mason may refer to: Occupations * Mason, brick mason, or bricklayer, a craftsman who lays bricks to construct brickwork, or who lays any combination of stones, bricks, cinder blocks, or similar pieces * Stone mason, a craftsman in the stone-cut ...

and Thurston counties, in the U.S. state of Washington. Kennedy Creek empties into the bay at the

U.S. Highway 101 U.S. Route 101, or U.S. Highway 101 (US 101), is a north–south United States Numbered Highway that runs through the states of California, Oregon, and Washington, on the West Coast of the United States. It is also known as (The Royal Roa ...

overpass. Oyster Bay was named for the oyster industry it supports. The bay is the site of one of only four oyster reserves in Puget Sound where the

Olympia oyster ''Ostrea lurida'', common name the Olympia oyster, after Olympia, Washington in the Puget Sound area, is a species of edible oyster, a marine bivalve mollusk in the family Ostreidae. This species occurs on the northern Pacific coast of North A ...

grows. Oyster Bay is one of the most productive chum salmon runs in the state with over 40,000 spawners a year, estimated to be two-thirds of the run that would exist without human impacts.

References

* Findlay, Jean Cammon, and Paterson, Robin, ''Mosquito Fleet of South Puget Sound'', Arcadia Publishing (2008) . Geography of Mason County, Washington Geography of Thurston County, Washington {{ThurstonCountyWA-geo-stub