)
Coffin Bay oysters off menu after gastro cases
The sale of South Australia’s famous Coffin Bay oysters has been temporarily halted and no oysters can leave their production area after a spike in gastro cases linked to raw seafood.
The sale of South Australia’s famous Coffin Bay oysters has been temporarily halted and no oysters can leave their production area after a spike in gastro cases linked to raw seafood.
Eyre Peninsula oyster producer Angel Seafood has acquired additional leases in Cowell and Coffin Bay as part of a growth strategy that will immediately boost production by 20 per cent to 12 million Pacific oysters a year.
Get InDaily in your inbox. Daily. The best local news sent straight to your inbox every workday at lunchtime.
Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter.
A second large-scale reef system will be developed in South Australia’s Gulf St Vincent to improve water quality and revive wild native oyster populations.
The state’s embattled oyster industry is set to increase production more than three years after a seed shortage crippled supply, according to BDO EconSearch.
A huge reef restoration project in Gulf St Vincent aims to pull the native mud oyster back from the brink of extinction in the wild, bringing wider benefits for coastal ecosystems.
With oyster season beginning this month, renowned Bowral chef James Viles shares a recipe that combines the fresh shellfish with end-of-summer cucumbers, nasturtium leaves and aromatic gin.