Now you seafood, now you don’t: $350k worth of oysters vanish without a trace in NSW

Sydney rock oysters, prized for their flavour and rarity, have been targeted by thieves, with one NSW farm losing 400,000 oysters in a single robbery. Photograph: Paris Spellson/Alamy

Police are on the hunt for a seafood swindler after 400,000 oysters were allegedly stolen from a farm at a river on the New South Wales mid-north coast.

About 320 bags of juvenile oysters, worth an estimated $350,000, were taken from an oyster farm in Scotts Creek, Oxley Island, earlier this year, according to NSW police.