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Last Update: Sunday, July 17, 2005. 7:05am (AEST)
The popular Sydney rock oyster may soon have to share the stage with pearl oysters that are cultivated in New South Wales.
A number of oyster producers in the state are swapping their Sydney rock variety to trial pearl oysters for the Japanese market.
Noel Baggley, who is on the oyster committee of the New South Wales Farmers Association, has been involved in trials of the pearl oysters in the Brunswick River on the NSW north coast.
He says test results have shown that the growth rates and the quality of the pearls produced are of high quality.
Mr Baggley says the conditions along the east coast of Australia are ideal for the oysters.
"There are now about a dozen farmers along the east coast that are now growing and some are up to the stage of actually seeding the oysters with the pearls, so it is growing and we expect that probably in the next five years, according to fisheries, could be quite an industry," he said.
Last Update: Sunday, July 17, 2005. 7:05am (AEST)
The popular Sydney rock oyster may soon have to share the stage with pearl oysters that are cultivated in New South Wales.
A number of oyster producers in the state are swapping their Sydney rock variety to trial pearl oysters for the Japanese market.
Noel Baggley, who is on the oyster committee of the New South Wales Farmers Association, has been involved in trials of the pearl oysters in the Brunswick River on the NSW north coast.
He says test results have shown that the growth rates and the quality of the pearls produced are of high quality.
Mr Baggley says the conditions along the east coast of Australia are ideal for the oysters.
"There are now about a dozen farmers along the east coast that are now growing and some are up to the stage of actually seeding the oysters with the pearls, so it is growing and we expect that probably in the next five years, according to fisheries, could be quite an industry," he said.
