Now you seafood, now you don’t: $350k worth of oysters vanish without a trace in NSW

Published August 26, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

About 400,000 juvenile Sydney rock oysters were taken from an oyster farm on state’s mid-north coast earlier this year, police say

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Police are on the hunt for a seafood swindler after 400,000 oysters were allegedly stolen from a farm at a river on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

Details

About 320 bags of juvenile oysters, worth an estimated $350,000, were taken from an oyster farm in Scotts Creek, Oxley Island, earlier this year, according to NSW police.

Source

Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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