2015 Investments
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- Oct 8, 2015
- 1 min
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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- Mar 8, 2015
- 1 min
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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- Feb 8, 2015
- 3 min
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, 2015
- 1 min
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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- Jan 8, 2015
- 1 min
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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- Dec 18, 2014
- 1 min
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 16, 2014
- 1 min
Killer herpes virus threatens $4 billion oyster industry
Source: Centralmaine Oyster herpes doesn’t harm people but a mutation has turned it from being an occasional oyster nuisance to an...
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- Oct 30, 2014
- 1 min
Narooma oyster growers, residents deal with flooding
Source: Narooma News HE wash up from this month’s flooding event at Narooma continues for both Narooma oyster growers and residents of...
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- Oct 30, 2014
- 1 min
Conservation project hopes to bring back New York’s oysters
Source: The Guardian The woman sat in the muck beside the Bronx River in the northern part of New York City, measured the oyster between...
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- Oct 30, 2014
- 1 min
Sapphire Coast oyster farmers banding together at Whale Festival
Source: Sapphire Coast Oyster farmers will be on hand to offer festival-goers freshly shucked oysters from a number of estuaries along...
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- Sep 18, 2014
- 1 min
Florida 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...
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- Sep 17, 2014
- 1 min
New York Oyster Week
Source: Coffee and Champagne It’s Oyster Week! In true New York fashion, it is a two week long affair—September 11 through the 28th,...
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- Sep 17, 2014
- 1 min
Measuring the heartbeat of an oyster
Source: 774 ABC Melbourne Jon Faine’s co-host is presenter of Radio National’s First Bite program, Michael Mackenzie. Their first guest...
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- Sep 12, 2014
- 1 min
Norovirus survey
Sampling of Australian shellfish for human norovirus (NoV) and hepatitis A virus (HAV) has started under a FRDC funded project. ...
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- Sep 12, 2014
- 1 min
Pacific oyster farmers to pay levy for research into devastating POMS virus
Source ABC Rural Producers of Pacific Oysters will pay a levy to research fighting a virus which is leaving whole farms decimated. The...
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- Sep 11, 2014
- 1 min
Oyster retail project
20 stores across Australia will be involved in a project to test the effect of point of sale material and demonstrations on oyster...
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- Sep 11, 2014
- 1 min
Marine scientists studying Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome
Source: ABC Rural Marine scientists studying Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome using a vaccine to trigger immunity in diseased oysters...
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- Sep 11, 2014
- 1 min
Look 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...
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- Jul 8, 2014
- 1 min
South Coast farmers worried Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome could spread
Source ABC It’s unknown whether a devastating virus which has killed millions of oysters will reach the South Coast. $6 million worth of...
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