Pages tagged Australia
Bruny Island Pacific
Pacific oysters from Great Bay, sold almost only at the farm's own bar. Get Shucked started as a caravan by the road and keeps 40,000 to 50,000 dozen on its lease.
Camden Haven
A mid-north-coast river farmed since 1978 by the Armstrongs, a family whose founder came from New Zealand as a sheep farmer. His two sons took over in 2008.
Hastings River
Port Macquarie's river, farmed by fifth-generation growers. The March 2021 flood swept away one farmer's 4,000 baskets and kept the water brown for five weeks.
Kangaroo Island
Pacific and native angasi oysters from American River, farmed since 2008 by two former IT recruiters who opened a farm shop three months after a storm wrecked their stock.
Manning River
A two-mouthed river on the New South Wales mid-north coast with about a dozen growers. The May 2025 flood cost them stock and gear, and reopened the southern entrance.
Merimbula Lake
A shallow lake on the far south coast of New South Wales that now grows a quarter of the state's Sydney rock oysters: 323,241 dozen large oysters in 2024–25.
Moulting Bay
A bay near St Helens, Tasmania, farmed by Craig Lockwood's Lease 65. In 2024 POMS was detected here, a first for the east coast, hitting a quarter of his market-ready oysters.
Pambula Lake
A small Sapphire Coast lake worked by family farms: Broadwater Oysters, the Indigenous-owned AJN Oysters, and a former dryland farmer known as Captain Sponge.
Port Stephens
A large harbour north of Newcastle with 41 oyster farms when QX disease struck in 2021. Some growers lost everything; production is down 55 percent since.
Shoalhaven River
The estuary at Greenwell Point, east of Nowra, where Jim Wild learned to shuck at eight and has farmed since about 1979, serving 140 tour buses a year.
Smoky Bay
An Eyre Peninsula bay where Selwyn "Kiwi" Evans started oyster farming in 1988 during a rural recession. Thirty years on it had about 19 oyster operations.
Tuross Lake
A river-fed lake set back from the sea on Yuin Country. Its rock oysters are low in brine, high in cream and savoriness, and best from mid-summer to early winter.
Wapengo Lake
Shane Buckley's wild-caught Sydney rock oysters from a lake inside Mimosa Rocks National Park: Australia's first certified organic rock oyster farm, since 2013.
Wonboyn Lake
The southernmost oyster estuary in New South Wales, near the Victorian border. After the 2019–20 fires and 2021 floods, its growers went most of a year without a sale.
Australia's Lost Oyster Reefs
Port Phillip Bay, Coffin Bay and Wagonga Inlet: how Australia's native oyster reefs were dredged and burned for lime, and how three communities are putting them back.
Freycinet
Pacific oysters from the Great Swanport estuary, eaten at a farm-gate shop on Tasmania's Great Eastern Drive, beside Freycinet National Park.
Hawkesbury River
North of Sydney, an estuary that lost its rock oysters to one parasite and their Pacific replacements to a virus, and now depends on disease-resistant breeding.
Moreton Bay
The bay outside Brisbane where oysters fed the Quandamooka people for thousands of years, then fueled a colonial boom that peaked in 1891.
Wallis Lake
A large coastal lake on the NSW mid-north coast, famous for Sydney rock oysters, and for the 1997 outbreak that changed how Australia manages oyster water.
What Ancient Oyster Heaps Reveal
A Florida mound of 20 to 30 million oysters, harvests that lasted millennia, and a parasite snail that shows people once skipped summer oysters.
The Real Origins of Baked Oyster Classics
A secret sauce with no spinach, a hotel manager's name that changed on the way to Australia, and a dish on a menu a year before its 'inventor' created it. The record behind four classics.
The Diseases That Redrew the Oyster Map
Why the Chesapeake lost its oysters, France lost two species in a decade, and Australian farms fear summer. Four diseases, and what they changed on the plate.
Saccostrea cucullata
A rock oyster of Indo-Pacific shores, from Kenya's mangroves to India and Australia, used as much to monitor pollution as to eat.
Angasi
Southern Australia's native flat oyster, stripped from its reefs in the 1800s and now grown by a handful of Tasmanian farms for a short winter season.
Clyde River
A south coast estuary of 19 oyster producers, among them a Batemans Bay shed started in 1957 and now run by the founder's granddaughter.
Coffin Bay
An Eyre Peninsula bay that fished out its native oysters by 1945, then built a Pacific oyster industry from a 1969 trial.