Yellowtail Kingfish is still a viable part of CleanSeas Tuna business on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia despite recent increases in mortality rates among juveniles.
Thirty-five percent of juveniles have been dying from an intestinal infection, shows a University research teams trying to work our the cause.
John Flint, chairman at CleanSeas, says although the infection had been present in some fish in the past, the mortality rate has recently increased to three per cent a week.
"Previously we hadn't seen mortality rates anywhere near this, so that's what's taken us back a bit, but yeah, we'll get there and we've got the right people looking at it."
This blog is written by staff at International Aquafeed Magazine which is published and supported by Perendale Publishers Limited. To get your copy of PPL's web application, 'PPLAPP' click here.
Thirty-five percent of juveniles have been dying from an intestinal infection, shows a University research teams trying to work our the cause.
John Flint, chairman at CleanSeas, says although the infection had been present in some fish in the past, the mortality rate has recently increased to three per cent a week.
"Previously we hadn't seen mortality rates anywhere near this, so that's what's taken us back a bit, but yeah, we'll get there and we've got the right people looking at it."
This blog is written by staff at International Aquafeed Magazine which is published and supported by Perendale Publishers Limited. To get your copy of PPL's web application, 'PPLAPP' click here.
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