Oysters to help SA reef

MORE than 50,000 oysters have been given a new home in South Australia as part of Australia’s largest reef restoration project.

The native Australian flat oysters were introduced to Windara Reef, in SA’s Gulf St Vincent, on Friday.

Led by the Nature Conservancy, the project aims to build a self-sustainable reef.

The goal is to increase the number of juvenile oysters to more than seven million.

A second deployment is expected later this year.

Windara Reef consists of 150 artificial reefs across 20ha.