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Aquaculture

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Sydney rock oysters

Saccostrea glomerata (Sydney rock oyster )

Drake, Bob

Saville-Kent, William

Bob Drake working in Neverfail Bay 1999

Bob Drake's oyster lease, Georges River, Oatley 26 March 1960

Ken Norton and other employees of Clarence Lewis's oyster farm open oysters for bottling at Woolooware c1960

New South Wales Oyster Fisheries

Oyster farmer Bob Drake working on his oyster lease, Georges River, Oatley 26 March 1960

Oyster farmer tending the oyster beds, New South Wales, Hawkesbury River 1960

Renewal of Percy Drake's oyster culture lease 1949

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Aquaculture

Sydney rock oysters

Gathered by Aboriginal people for thousands of years before the Europeans arrived, Sydney oysters became a farmed product in the 1870s and remain a popular seafood.

Saccostrea glomerata (Sydney rock oyster )

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Sydney's famous native rock oyster that are endemic to the east coast of Australia. They inhabit sheltered estuaries and bays, and have a smooth, thick shell.

Drake, Bob

Last remaining oyster farmer on the Georges River at Oatley. He is the fourth generation of his family in the industry which once thrived along the Georges River.

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Saville-Kent, William

Fisheries scientist and author whose success was in no way limited by the notoriety of his sister's conviction for murder. He was a pioneer of scientific management of Australian fisheries whose work preceded the establishment of aquaculture in pearling, oysters and salmon.

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