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

By
Don McPhedran
From the collections of the
State Library of New South Wales
[d7_08252 / APA 08252]
(Mitchell Library)

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McPhedran, Don

State Library of New South Wales

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.

Neverfail Bay, Oatley

Named by European settlers for its plentiful springs and ponds, Neverfail Bay in Oatley was the cultivation ground for a thriving oysters industry until increasing pollution and viral contamination took their toll in the 1990s

Rivers and Catchments

Aquaculture

Georges River

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River that rises at Appin in the upland swamps of the O'Hares Creek catchment, and flows 80 kilometres north and east to meet Botany Bay at Taren Point, in Sydney's southern suburbs. The total catchment is over 930 square kilometres managed by a large number of local government authorities and is the main tributary of Botany Bay.

Oatley

Leafy southern residential suburb on the Georges River. Built on the land granted to James Oatley, a convict clockmaker, it began to develop in the 1960s.

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Neverfail Bay

Bay on the Georges River at Oatley.

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