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