The Mantiyupwi Clan are part of a world first trial in black-lip oyster farming, which they're hoping to take to a global market in the next two years.
In the Apsley Strait that runs between the the two main islands, Melville and Bathust, a row of black-lip oyster cages, tethered together by rope, float offshore between the reefs and sandbanks. It's a new way of harvesting an island delicacy that grows wild on rocks fringing the Tiwi Islands, north of Darwin in the Northern Territory.
Leading that research is Evan Needham - the acting program director for aquatic and strategic policy with NT Fisheries at the Darwin Aquaculture Centre - who started working with the Tiwi Island community over a decade ago to develop a world first trial. "We were actually approached by Traditional Owners on the Tiwi Islands who had some concerns around the food collection of black-lip rock oysters and asked if we could help," Mr Needham told NITV.
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