Oysters in Zihuatanejo

Coming from the "Oyster Capital" of North America! I can tell you that freezing oysters does not go well! They will survive out of water for quite a while, and even longer if stored on ice! I'm sorry but the Mexican oysters cannot hold a candle to the more Northern ones!

Unless you're from the Gulf Coast you ain't from no "oyster capital of North America" my Canadian friend.

Personally, getting poisoned once decades ago on local oysters was more than enough for me. Three days writhing in agony hugging a cool cement floor. I no longer eat them here for two main reasons. (1) Most communities along our coast have no wastewater treatment plants, and even when they have them they often don't work; and (2) absolutely no one respects the off-season for oysters. And worldwide because of that very same attitude we are literally fishing the oceans out.

So when I think of local seafood, oysters are not on that menu.

And frankly after all the damage in recent years to the Gulf of Mexico, I'm not sure those are safe to eat anymore either.