Fish health experts need to act over salmon virus

Due to the recent reports of the ISA virus found in wild salmon, there needs to be a plan of action to deal with this outbreak before its devastate the population. “We need an action plan immediately and we need to make sure that we are formulating a rapid response to what to do if we do detect that the virus is spreading,” US Senator Maria Cantwell, D-Wash, said in support of an amendment to a pending appropriations bill in Congress. The virus known as infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is well know and has killed tens of millions of farm-raised salmon in such far-flung places as Norway, Chile, New Brunswick, Canada and Scotland. Read more ...

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