| 1. | A patch of seagrass lies behind the oyster bank at Mowhiti Point.
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| 2. | The Dux family retained the license to Oyster Bank 122 until August 1957.
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| 3. | Licenses were still available for working oyster banks not within a dredge section.
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| 4. | Labour-intensive oyster cultivation is now rare in Queensland, and most oyster bank licensees harvest naturally occurring oysters.
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| 5. | Its wreckage was recovered and, after removal of items of value, it was dumped on the Oyster Bank.
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| 6. | Stanley Dux recalls spending from Monday to Saturday each week at the hut, working and guarding the oyster bank.
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| 7. | Significantly, the hut remains in situ, on the shoreline, opposite a working oyster bank taken up by at least 1884.
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| 8. | His sons helped him to develop the oyster banks, obtaining timber and shell bedding from Crusoe and Rat islands nearby.
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| 9. | The industry was plagued also by operators who denuded oyster banks, and made little or no effort at replenishing the stock.
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| 10. | The Act offered transferable, 14 year leases over identified oyster grounds which could comprise both an oyster dredge section and oyster banks.
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