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Speaker 1: Five Double A Knights with Matthew Pantalas Sern about some

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Speaker 1: oysters that have been moved for whatever reason. I'm not

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Speaker 1: sure the reason, frankly, but they're being moved from the

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Speaker 1: one side of the Spencer Gulf from Franklin Harbor, which

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Speaker 1: has been hit by the algal bloom, and they're being

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Speaker 1: taken to the other side of the Air Peninsula. Oysters

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Speaker 1: that have grown that have been living in alga bloom

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Speaker 1: affected waters. Now the concern is on the other side.

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Speaker 1: We're talking the West Coast. Oysters that are there that

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Speaker 1: have lived through the algal bloom could potentially contaminate stocks.

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Speaker 1: Is the fear that haven't seen the algal bloom on

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Speaker 1: their side of the peninsula. Let's have a chat with

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Speaker 1: Dion Edmonds. He runs Streaky Bay Marine Products and obviously

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Speaker 1: is concerned about the potential impact should the bloom suddenly

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Speaker 1: appear in the area. There. Good evening. Thanks for your timeh.

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Speaker 2: I Matt for your time also and concerned on the issue.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it is concerning because we've got clear areas and

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Speaker 1: we seem to be importing a problem.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look, there's a there's a big contingent here at

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Speaker 2: haslam here on the west coast where there's there's real

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Speaker 2: live issue for us. Potentially oyster is going out at

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Speaker 2: any time and and could be contaminating the greater Bay

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Speaker 2: of Streaky Bay, where there's a number of lease holds.

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Speaker 2: Not just the company in question have lease holds here,

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Speaker 2: but there's a number of other lease old areas that

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Speaker 2: could be affected. But not only that, Matt, it's the

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Speaker 2: it's all the other fisheries that are based here that

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Speaker 2: will be effective if there's an issue. As you know

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Speaker 2: the effect in the in the Gulfs, it's it's not

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Speaker 2: just oysters, it's as everything that's in the insure waters

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Speaker 2: that can be affected. So it's a big concern for

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Speaker 2: our community.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely. Is the science behind that argument that if you

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Speaker 1: move voysters from one spot to the other, you could

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Speaker 1: be taking the bloom with them.

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Speaker 2: Well, it hasn't been done before.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, why take the risk?

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Speaker 2: Yets say exactly, And and everybody here is saying, well,

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Speaker 2: if there's a risk, it's an unnecessary one. And we

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Speaker 2: don't understand why there's such a push to put the

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Speaker 2: pressure on our area to accept this risk, and it's

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Speaker 2: it's just unnecessary. It's it's Yeah, it's unfathomable how this

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Speaker 2: has got through without any consultation through industry and the

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Speaker 2: local area. How it's got to this point for us

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Speaker 2: to for us to be notified at mid afternoon yesterday

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Speaker 2: that it was going ahead and the oysters are on

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Speaker 2: their way here is beyond belief.

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Speaker 1: Why are they on the way there? What's the issue?

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Speaker 1: Why can't be left where they are? Why do they

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Speaker 1: have to be taken to the other side of the peninsula.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't understand the urgency and that the hoses

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Speaker 2: aren't dying where they are, that they're surviving quite quite

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Speaker 2: well through the through the situation they're in. It's just

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Speaker 2: that the bay that they're growing, apparently in Franklin Harbor,

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Speaker 2: is closed and they can't be transferred out of there

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Speaker 2: under the current code of practice. But this company has

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Speaker 2: has applied for a relay permits to translocate them from

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Speaker 2: the area to to their site here in Haslem, and

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Speaker 2: apparently through that mechanism they're they're they've been assessed at

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Speaker 2: a blow to medium risk or we don't haven't then

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Speaker 2: been told the official risk level, so it's all it's

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Speaker 2: all unknown. No one's been notified of how they're how

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Speaker 2: they've achieved this, and what conditions have been placed on

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Speaker 2: the need to move the stock. So, yeah, it's to

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Speaker 2: us any risk is too high a risk. We've seen

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Speaker 2: how devastating the algibling has been in the Gulf, while

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Speaker 2: we taking that risk here on the pristine West Coast.

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Speaker 2: It's just just done, real mate.

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Speaker 1: Yeah it is, I'm sure. So you've got a lot

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Speaker 1: of people upset about it, obviously. I understand lots of

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a big blockade here and a lot of

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Speaker 2: a lot of people supporting that here and coming down

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Speaker 2: and taking their turn to make sure that nothing's going

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Speaker 2: to see okay, And yeah that'll be going through the night.

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Speaker 1: Wow. Really so you're going to be with it all night?

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Speaker 2: Well, they could, they could potentially put them out at night.

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Speaker 2: So we're in for the long haul, mate, where we

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Speaker 2: don't want to leave leave this the chance.

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Speaker 1: So it has from the only way in. I mean,

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Speaker 1: what what if they went further up or down the

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they could potentially move them, leave them to get

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Speaker 2: I'm out of Streaky Bay. But there's eyes on everything,

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Speaker 2: so wherever they go, they'll find resistance at the moment.

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Speaker 1: So who notified your d and was the primary industries?

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Speaker 1: Was it the minister who let you know this was happening?

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Speaker 2: The Department her the notified our areo yesterday and from

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Speaker 2: my understanding, orses were already on their way here from

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Speaker 2: Franklin Harbor on trucks. And you know we're not talking

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Speaker 2: about you know, a few dozen oises in that it's tons.

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Speaker 2: And in this initial equipment there's around twenty ton of voices.

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Speaker 2: Now you know, I don't know exactly how much water

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Speaker 2: would be held by twenty ton of voices, but it's

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Speaker 2: going to be significant. And they're looking and under this permit,

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Speaker 2: it's not just one one movement. There's going to be

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Speaker 2: multiple movements of twenty ton. So they've got you know

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Speaker 2: that I don't know what this company has in the

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Speaker 2: one hundred one hundred ton range or more. Well, so

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Speaker 2: you know we're talking, we're talking some secreous movement of product.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, So you run the fish processing plant there

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Speaker 1: in Streaky Bays, So what does it mean for your

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Speaker 1: business if the the Alga bloom appears because you don't

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Speaker 1: just does. You do a whole range of different things.

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Speaker 2: That's right. We do marine scale and avaloni as well.

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Speaker 1: And I've got a.

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Speaker 2: Couple of ride marine scale fishermen here with me. There's

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Speaker 2: a number of other marine scale fishes from up the

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Speaker 2: coast as well that are here that are concerned. You

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Speaker 2: know that they're really concerned because they're inshore fisheries and

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Speaker 2: that they've been heavily impacted as you know in the

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Speaker 2: Gulfs and k I even now the avaloni industry has

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Speaker 2: been affected in areas in small ways. But yeah, we're

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Speaker 2: still fishing that intertidal you know, range of water, and

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Speaker 2: you know it can be it can affect avaloni as well.

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Speaker 2: So it's it's across a number of fisher is that

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Speaker 2: it's not just oysters. That's a little effect that will affect.

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Speaker 1: The number unbelievable, all right, So the community is going

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Speaker 1: to stay out there all night. You're taking turns and

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Speaker 1: doing it in shifts and whatever else. And I imagine

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Speaker 1: in to tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, Matt. And you know, hopefully you know

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Speaker 2: the power to be see some sense here and go

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Speaker 2: back to go back to looking at the you know,

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Speaker 2: the science and take another look and go that there's

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Speaker 2: just too many ifs and bucks and nabies that we

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Speaker 2: don't know about. That's not worth taking a risk.

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Speaker 1: No, no, it seems not. And the whole town, well,

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Speaker 1: probably a lot of the town would rely on fishing

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Speaker 1: out there, whether it's oysters or abbelony or whatever else.

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Speaker 1: You'd have a lot of people in Streaky and other

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Speaker 1: towns obviously up and down the coast they're relying on good,

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Speaker 1: pristine clear waters. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Look, the oyl industry is huge over here on the

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Speaker 2: West Coast. I'm not sure if you've been to the

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Speaker 2: oyster fest and sojourna and and and witness the you know,

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Speaker 2: the level of involvement in the community and what the

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Speaker 2: community relies on on that business throughout that area. And

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Speaker 2: it's bigging Streaky Bay. That the tourism around around fishing

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Speaker 2: and enjoying the you know, the water, water and what

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Speaker 2: the water can provide here on the West Coast is huge.

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Speaker 2: We lose that, you know, it's the towns, the town

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Speaker 2: is going to be a shadow.

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Speaker 1: Of what Absolutely Deo, thank you so much for your time.

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Speaker 1: Good luck with the blockade there and as you say,

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Speaker 1: hope common sense prevails.

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Speaker 2: That's so Matt, I appreciate time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Dion Edmonds from Streaky Bay Marine Products. He's

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Speaker 1: a fish processing plant, is what he runs, and obviously

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Speaker 1: doesn't haunt any chance of the Alga Blue making its

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Speaker 1: way over. So tons of oysters from Franklin Bay on

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Speaker 1: one side of the peninsula being trucked to the west,

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Speaker 1: up the west coast where there's been no hour bloom.

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Speaker 1: Why would we take the risk? Who would know if

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Speaker 1: voiceters can transfer it. But if they can, or if

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Speaker 1: there's the chance they can, why would we even think

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Speaker 1: about doing this? That's absolutely beyond me.