Flooded catchments and sewage spills have forced the closure of harvesting areas across the state
Easter is usually one of the oyster industry’s busiest times and farmers say the closures are yet another setback after three difficult years.Easter is usually one of the oyster industry’s busiest times and farmers say the closures are yet another setback after three difficult years.
NSW Food Authority uses “rainfall triggers” that alert authorities when the water level in certain harvest zones gets too high. For oyster farmers like Paul Wilson, who runs the Port Oyster company on the Hastings River, this latest setback is yet another addition to an already troublesome few years. “We have really been on the heavy foot. We had two years in a row of floods and then before that we had the bushfires. And there’s also Covid. It has been a horrible three years.”has begun to overwhelm the ageing sewage system. He says the number of sewer failures and leaks has increased which is adding further strain for farmers.
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