NSW Oyster farmers devastated as Easter sales are washed away by floods

Floodwaters have devastated the New South Wales oyster industry just days before the usually lucrative Easter break.

Oyster leases in waterways along the coast have been damaged during the deluge.

“We’ve had shipping containers, cows, fridges, you name it, just come down river systems and destroy oyster leases,” said Andy Myers, a New South Wales Oyster Industry extension officer.

“At one point we were having one metre of water running through oyster sheds which is obviously not good…