00:01The water is clear and the oysters meaty, as the Eyre Peninsula leaves the algal bloom
00:07in its wake.
00:08All of a sudden everything's come back, the birds are back, the dolphins are back, the
00:13bethnic feeders are back, the oysters are so healthy at the moment.
00:17Closures of up to eight months saw some growers lose hundreds of thousands of dollars, and
00:23the ripple effects are still being felt.
00:25You can't harvest what you don't seed, and we just weren't able to seed at that point,
00:30so we're going to fill that 15 months down the track.
00:33I haven't put anything in the water for, well, two years now, certainly 18 months.
00:39With no way of knowing if the harmful algal bloom will return, growers are taking it one
00:43day at a time, and recovery across the state is moving at different speeds.
00:48Growers on the York Peninsula bore the brunt, closing earlier and longer than their counterparts
00:54across the Gulf.
00:55I'm old, and can I get my money back?
00:59I don't think I can.
01:01I think our business is largely worthless now.
01:04Steve Bowley fears an increase in barnacles growing on his oyster racks has contributed
01:09to an increase in mortality rates.
01:11Out of every five dozen, I reckon I'm getting one dozen that are dead.
01:15Despite the long road to recovery, there is hope on the horizon.
01:19For the most part, there's confidence, there's production occurring, and growers are looking
01:24forward to making sales ahead of Christmas.
01:26a lot of people who don't have a lot of feelings.
01:26We can roll through those of them.
01:27Him, I think they're holding a lot of money, and they're writing that way.
01:30As a matter of fact, there have been a lot of money that's going on.
01:30Now, that's all right, we're not going to be careful.
01:31The story does not mean to us.
01:31It doesn't mean to us.
01:32We don't care.
01:32You
