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New technologies to Improve Sydney Rock Oyster breeding and production
In the past, hatcheries producing the Sydney Rock Oyster (SRO) have had challenges with specific production aspects, impacting hatchery...
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Apr 17, 20194 min read
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Will Species Diversification Help Mitigate a SA POMS Outbreak?
Species diversification is one way to mitigate against the risk of disease, but it all comes down to practicality and profitability. Can...
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Mar 25, 20193 min read
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[VIDEO] Rapid POMS development, detection and enumeration using flow cytometry
On the 09/04/18, Oysters Australia held an R&D day to bring together all researchers involved in the Future Oysters CRC-P funded oyster...
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Feb 26, 20191 min read
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Rapid and Cost-effective POMS Detection using Flow Cytometry
Traditional Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) testing currently relies on intensive sampling of oysters with expensive qPCR lab...
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Feb 26, 20193 min read
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[VIDEO] Polymicrobial Involvement in POMS Outbreaks
On the 09/04/18, Oysters Australia held an R&D day to bring together all researchers involved in the Future Oysters CRC-P funded oyster...
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Jan 31, 20191 min read
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Microbiomes: the Mechanism of Oyster Diseases
All animals and plants, including humans, live in an intimate association with a diverse community of microorganisms. This includes...
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Jan 30, 20193 min read
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Do you know what the best Christmas present is for an Oyster hatchery? A biosecurity plan.
Before the POMS outbreak in Tasmania, hatchery biosecurity plans did not exist. Things changed after January 2016. Tasmania is home to...
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Dec 18, 20183 min read
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[VIDEO] Advanced understanding of POMS to guide farm management decisions in Tasmania
On the 09/04/18, Oysters Australia held an R&D day to bring together all researchers involved in the Future Oysters CRC-P funded oyster...
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Nov 29, 20181 min read
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Southern Tasmanian oyster farmers rise above the devastation of a major disease outbreak
If there’s one thing Tasmania should be known for, it’s Pacific oysters. In past years, 4 million dozen of them were grown annually,...
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Nov 28, 20184 min read
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[VIDEO] Accelerated Sydney Rock Oyster Breeding Research
On the 09/04/18, Oysters Australia held an R&D day to bring together all researchers involved in the Future Oysters CRC-P funded oyster...
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Oct 29, 20181 min read
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Smart strategies for Sydney Rock oysters
The Sydney Rock Oyster (SRO) is iconic and has been an important protein source for thousands of years in Australia. Fast forward to...
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Oct 29, 20183 min read
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[VIDEO] Enhancing Pacific Oyster Breeding to Optimise National Benefit
On the 09/04/18, Oysters Australia held an R&D day to bring together all researchers involved in the Future Oysters CRC-P funded oyster...
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Oct 24, 20181 min read
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POMS: you may have won the battle, but you haven't won the war
“We’ve been invaded by bloody POMS again!” The Captain said to his secretary. Overhearing this, Chief Mate Jimbo huffed under his breath...
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Oct 24, 20183 min read
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2015 Investments
Watch Steve Jones, Chair, Oysters Australia Research and Development Committee and Oyster Grower from the Hawkesbury River in NSW closing...
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Nov 8, 20152 min read
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Easy-Open Oyster Development
The Australian Oyster Industry has an exciting opportunity, with the announcement for the Expression of Interest for the...
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Oct 8, 20151 min read
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Life on an oyster boat off South Australia’s Yorke Peninsula
Source: ABC Rural Life on an oyster farm in Stansbury South Australia is picture perfect, as long as it’s not raining. Yorke Peninsula...
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Mar 8, 20151 min read
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Australia’s Talking Oysters – Episode 5
Bruce Zippel Watch Bruce’s segment On behalf of Oysters Australia, I would like to sincerely thank Rachel King for her time as our...
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Feb 8, 20153 min read
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Taking a hammer to Pacific oysters on the NSW far south coast
Source: ABC Rural Oyster farmers on the far south coast of New South Wales are taking to Pacific Oyster populations with small hammers,...
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Feb 8, 20151 min read
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Oyster herpes killing scores of bivalves around the world
Source: nydailynews.com The virus can’t be transmitted to humans but has a nearly 100% mortality rate among Pacific oysters. Ostreid...
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Jan 8, 20151 min read
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Ocean Acidification Causing Pacific Oyster Die Off
Source: News.Discovery.com As CO2 levels increase in the atmosphere, near-shore waters are becoming more acidic, which can hurt the...
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Dec 18, 20141 min read
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