{"id":5737,"date":"2026-03-04T13:05:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5737"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:48:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:48:20","slug":"maldon-oysters-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/?p=5737","title":{"rendered":"Maldon Oysters Visit"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5737\" class=\"elementor elementor-5737\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8274709 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8274709\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8210e7d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8210e7d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Sir John was delighted to welcome Katie Emerson, the daughter of Richard\u00a0Emans\u00a0and Operations Director of\u00a0Maldon\u00a0Oysters,\u00a0to Westminster\u00a0with the Shellfish Aquaculture\u00a0All-Party Parliamentary\u00a0Group.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335551550&quot;:1,&quot;335551620&quot;:1,&quot;335559685&quot;:0,&quot;335559737&quot;:0,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:278}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Oysters have a long history in the Blackwater\u00a0Estuary, where they have been\u00a0cultivated\u00a0since\u00a0Roman Britain.\u00a0Since 2003, Richard\u00a0Emans\u00a0and his family have run the Maldon Oyster Company, championing\u00a0sustainable practices\u00a0and innovative depuration techniques.\u00a0<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Thanks to the care\u00a0taken by Maldon Oysters in restoring these historic oyster beds, the estuary has\u00a0also\u00a0benefited\u00a0from the ecological benefits that oysters\u00a0provide.<\/span><\/p><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Maldon Oysters can be found in some of the top restaurants in the country and are a proud Essex delicacy. Sir John is always pleased to meet members of local family businesses, which remain a core part of the community he represents.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir John met with Katie Emerson of Maldon Oysters at the APPG for Shellfish Aquaculture in Westminster. Maldon Oysters is a family-run local business supporting sustainable oyster farming processes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-westminster-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5737"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5737\/revisions\/5867"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johnwhittingdale.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}