Aquaculture industry in Western Australia concerned over Vaccine and feed

A Department of Fisheries senior fish pathologist Dr Brian Jones has indicated that there are concerns over economical, environmental, nutritional and pollution issues that are ongoing concerns for the aquaculture’s future viability. Dr Jones said “We tend to think of aquaculture as things in ponds but there are farms that grow beta-carotene, which is actually our largest aquaculture producer in terms of value." Disease is another critical factor since 2002, white spot syndrome (WSS) virus cost the global aquaculture economy US$10 billion (€7.197 billion). Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.