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Identifying Profitable Deep Water Tasmanian Oyster Farming Leases

Identifying Profitable Deep Water Tasmanian Oyster Farming Leases

Vanessa Fairweather2026-01-19T10:05:13+11:00December 8th, 2025|

This project addresses a key question within the Tasmanian oyster industry: how can currently underutilised open ocean and deep-water zones be successfully farmed? The prior oyster aquaculture scoping project highlighted that current deep-water farming is constrained by environmental, genetic, [...]

Duncan Spender

Duncan Spender

Vanessa Fairweather2025-12-08T13:09:27+11:00December 8th, 2025|

Duncan Spender is the CEO of Oysters Tasmania, the peak body representing Tasmania’s oyster farmers. With qualifications in economics and politics, his experience includes environment valuation and cost benefit analysis in the federal Treasury Department.

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