When you think of lobsters and oysters today, you imagine candlelit dinners, fancy table settings and a hefty bill at the end. But would you believe these culinary stars were once the equivalent of ...
Volunteers from the not-for-profit Ozfish set out on weekly missions to collect oyster shells from large restaurants and shuckers around Brisbane, bringing roughly four tonnes of shell back to ...
This work is step one in the yearlong process of habitat restoration. The next step is developing the seeds in the upcoming months. Volunteers will plant oyster shells along impacted areas with the ...
Pearls are made when a grain of sand or some other particle gets into an oyster shell. The oyster then coats it with thin layers of a mineral secretion, forming the pearl over a few years. The pearls ...
A large number of fish and oyster spat have died at a research facility near West Beach in Adelaide. Around 70 per cent of the state's breeding line of oyster spat was lost, but an oyster grower ...
The team received a permit to conduct a study with different materials in place for 18 months, including both traditional materials like lime rock, oyster shells and granite and engineered ...