Macquarie Harbour is home to aquaculture that produces atlantic salmon and ocean trout. Yet more trivia - the trout aren't any different to our freshwater rainbow trout.
They are reared in large round underwater nets. In each net there are 30,000 fish. They are raised up to 4kg in weight and are fed pellets suspended in a stream of water off small boats. These are called "fish tucker chuckers".
One of the problems that needed to be overcome was cormorants taking the fish. They tried several solutions to this problem, including scarecrows dressed in sou'westers but the cormorants soon became used to the static scarecrows so the aquaculturalists employed pensioners to walk around the nets scaring the birds away.
So if you visit Strahan be careful not to look too idle or you may be kidnapped and sent out to the harbour to become a human scarecrow.
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