Five oyster farmers on the New South Wales mid-north coast have saved $2 million of revenue by relocating stock from their flooded estuaries to Southern Cross University’s National Marine Science Centre in Coffs Harbour.
The aquaculture operations manager at the centre, Stephan Soule, is “babysitting” 3 million juvenile oysters – known as spats and each about the size of a grain of sand – that were rescued from oyster farms in the flooded Macleay River on the Mid-North Coast.
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