Large amounts of oyster spat, as well as fish including barramundi and snapper, have died of unknown causes at the South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) facility at West Beach.
Photo: Jennifer Trice Setting: Tiny eyed oyster larvae are attached to a cultch (substrate of oyster shell). Photo: Jennifer Trice These sets of spat shell are typically used by farmers who plant ...
The caged oysters started to reproduce in July 2017 and a 5mm baby (spat) was found off Portsmouth last March. A final report on the project is expected in 2021.