AdminNov 8, 20152 min2015 InvestmentsWatch Steve Jones, Chair, Oysters Australia Research and Development Committee and Oyster Grower from the Hawkesbury River in NSW closing...
AdminOct 8, 20151 minEasy-Open Oyster DevelopmentThe Australian Oyster Industry has an exciting opportunity, with the announcement for the Expression of Interest for the...
AdminMar 8, 20151 minLife on an oyster boat off South Australia’s Yorke PeninsulaSource: ABC Rural Life on an oyster farm in Stansbury South Australia is picture perfect, as long as it’s not raining. Yorke Peninsula...
AdminFeb 8, 20153 minAustralia’s Talking Oysters – Episode 5Bruce Zippel Watch Bruce’s segment On behalf of Oysters Australia, I would like to sincerely thank Rachel King for her time as our...
AdminFeb 8, 20151 minTaking a hammer to Pacific oysters on the NSW far south coastSource: ABC Rural Oyster farmers on the far south coast of New South Wales are taking to Pacific Oyster populations with small hammers,...
AdminJan 8, 20151 minOyster herpes killing scores of bivalves around the worldSource: nydailynews.com The virus can’t be transmitted to humans but has a nearly 100% mortality rate among Pacific oysters. Ostreid...
AdminDec 18, 20141 minOcean Acidification Causing Pacific Oyster Die OffSource: News.Discovery.com As CO2 levels increase in the atmosphere, near-shore waters are becoming more acidic, which can hurt the...
AdminDec 16, 20141 minKiller herpes virus threatens $4 billion oyster industrySource: Centralmaine Oyster herpes doesn’t harm people but a mutation has turned it from being an occasional oyster nuisance to an...
AdminOct 30, 20141 minNarooma oyster growers, residents deal with floodingSource: Narooma News HE wash up from this month’s flooding event at Narooma continues for both Narooma oyster growers and residents of...
AdminOct 30, 20141 minConservation project hopes to bring back New York’s oystersSource: The Guardian The woman sat in the muck beside the Bronx River in the northern part of New York City, measured the oyster between...
AdminOct 30, 20141 minSapphire Coast oyster farmers banding together at Whale FestivalSource: Sapphire Coast Oyster farmers will be on hand to offer festival-goers freshly shucked oysters from a number of estuaries along...
AdminSep 18, 20141 minFlorida oysters in crisis: ‘Our industry needs to be shut down’Source: AL.com In 2012, Apalachicola Bay oyster fishers harvested more than 3 million pounds of oyster meat, roughly 92 percent of the...
AdminSep 17, 20141 minNew York Oyster WeekSource: Coffee and Champagne It’s Oyster Week! In true New York fashion, it is a two week long affair—September 11 through the 28th,...
AdminSep 17, 20141 minMeasuring the heartbeat of an oysterSource: 774 ABC Melbourne Jon Faine’s co-host is presenter of Radio National’s First Bite program, Michael Mackenzie. Their first guest...
AdminSep 12, 20141 minNorovirus surveySampling of Australian shellfish for human norovirus (NoV) and hepatitis A virus (HAV) has started under a FRDC funded project. ...
AdminSep 12, 20141 minPacific oyster farmers to pay levy for research into devastating POMS virusSource ABC Rural Producers of Pacific Oysters will pay a levy to research fighting a virus which is leaving whole farms decimated. The...
AdminSep 11, 20141 minOyster retail project20 stores across Australia will be involved in a project to test the effect of point of sale material and demonstrations on oyster...
AdminSep 11, 20141 minMarine scientists studying Pacific Oyster Mortality SyndromeSource: ABC Rural Marine scientists studying Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome using a vaccine to trigger immunity in diseased oysters...
AdminSep 11, 20141 minLook what one lucky customer found!On the 9th August, the Tas Farm Gate Market – @tasfarmgate – posted this photo showing what one lucky customer found in their oyster...
AdminJul 8, 20141 minSouth Coast farmers worried Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome could spreadSource ABC It’s unknown whether a devastating virus which has killed millions of oysters will reach the South Coast. $6 million worth of...