After 55 years growing oysters, Bernie Connell and his oyster 'Jill' look set to break world records after this weekend's Narooma Oyster Festival on the NSW far south coast.
Bernie Connell 's oyster nicknamed 'Jill' has been crowned Australia's largest oyster at more than 3 kilograms.He's waiting on a call from the Guinness Book of World Record s to confirm the world title.
Jill, the oyster, is almost a decade old and weighs in at a whopping 3.01 kilograms, making it almost twice the size of the current record of 1.6kg, set in Denmark in 2013. Mr Connell said the secret to growing big oysters was the diet, and described Jill as a naturally "fast grower"."The main thing is what they eat, and in this river, we have 18 kinds of algae and this kind of oyster eats the lot, that's why they grow so big," he said.
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