As part of the Wagonga Inlet Living Shoreline project, the second seeding of Angasi Oysters has taken place in recent weeks, in an attempt to reintroduce the native oyster species to the waters of Narooma.
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00:00 Is there any in the bucket?
00:02 Probably not then.
00:04 If you want...
00:06 I know Damon knows where they are, but I can't leave them.
00:08 Is that good?
00:14 Yeah, yeah, for sure.
00:15 Nah, they don't mind that.
00:16 They'll actually eat a lot of it and they'll settle in between it.
00:19 But we don't install it yet.
00:25 We've got specific oysters, the shells in each container, that have been tagged and labelled.
00:33 And I think that's so that James can then look at them under each of these six out of each tank,
00:40 look at them under the microscope to determine how many spat there are on each shell for each tank.
00:47 And then we've got a baseline of how many there are, effectively, of how many number of oysters.
00:53 So if we do 14 in one row, 14 in the other row, that way we don't have to count them as we chuck them out.
01:02 We just chuck one whole row out.
01:04 3, 4, 5, 6.
01:11 14's in the front and we're good to go.
01:14 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
01:21 I'll jump in the back, yeah?
01:24 I think what you're doing is fantastic, Damien.
01:29 Oh, thanks, mate.
01:30 Look, I'm just a part of it, you know.
01:33 Really, James is the man, you know.
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