Pages tagged Sydney Rock
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.