Despite oysters being a popular mainstay on many summer menus, the process of farming them from spat to plate-worthy is not well understood for most Australians.
abc.net.au/news/oyster-industry-still-learning-to-best-practice-farming/101813252Oysters are a mainstay of Australia's summer for some people, but a South Australian farmer says there is nothing simple about bringing them from the ocean to the plate.
"There is a bit of a theory out there that we just put oysters out there, come back in two years and sell them and that's not true," Mr Turner says. He says many consumers would be surprised to learn that oysters must be starved during their growing phase in order to produce meat over shells.This oyster grower on South Australia's Yorke Peninsula regularly sorts his oysters.Mr Turner and his workers collect the oysters from pre-determined plots by boat, take them back to the farm and sort them by size.
"At the end of the day, oysters are pumps that filter-feed the seawater and some oysters are stronger than others and they literally will steal the feed off the small ones," he says.
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