Kiwi oyster farmers are hoping a boost in funding from the Government will help the industry fight back from a two-year fight with a herpes virus.
The newly formed Ministry for Primary Industries has awarded NZD 407,000 for the Oyster Industry Modernisation Project, coordinated jointly between Aquaculture New Zealand and New Zealand Oyster Industry Association.
New Zealand’s oyster industry is struggling to bounce back from the OSHV1 virus which has decimated the wild juvenile oysters on which farming is based, said Callum McCallum, Oyster Industry Association chairman.
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