Sean Murphy  Shell Shocked  Broadcast: 10/03/2013 4:41:43 PM
Reporter: Sean Murphy  Shell Shocked  Shell Shocked  PIP
COURTNEY, PRESENTER: Scientists now believe a devastating virus
which has wiped out the Hawkesbury River oyster industry in New
South Wales was present there at least three months before it
was detected.  The fear now is that Pacific Oyster Mortality
Syndrome will spread to Port Stephens, placing its crucial
hatchery and seed stock businesses at risk.  The POMS virus has
now been detected in the Georges and Hawkesbury Rivers as well
as Brisbane Water. About 20 oyster growers from along the New
South Wales coast have had their stocks placed in quarantine as
new protocols for managing the disease are worked out.  ON
SCREEN: Shell Shocked  (Men in cross a river in a small
motorboat at dawn)  ROB MOXHAM, OYSTER FARMER: I've got a pretty
good office out here. You never get sick and tired of going up
and down the river.  But also you feel as though by doing your
oyster farming in a sustainable way,