Three Million Baby Oysters Rescued From Floods

Houses surrounded by floodwater in Coraki, Australia on March 7, 2022 as residents of northern New South Wales continue cleaning up following unprecedented storms and the worst flooding in a decade. Dan Peled/Getty Images

Oyster farmers in New South Wales (NSW) have rescued three million baby oysters—each the size of a grain of sand—from catastrophic floods that have inundated northern NSW and Queensland since January.

The farmers on the Macleay River, a major river in NSW, received the oysters just days before the floods, but heavy rains acidified the water, which can be lethal to oysters.