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Ah shucks, how bushfires can harm and even kill our delicious oysters

  • Written by Shauna Murray, Associate Professor; Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney
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Oysters are filter feeders, extracting nutrients from the water, so that makes them very susceptible to water pollution such as that from bushfires.

We are trying to understand how ash from the 2019-20 bushfires has affected the waterways and oyster farms of New South Wales. Their production is worth more than A$59 million a year.

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