Cooke Aquaculture has been given the go ahead to process salmon infected with ISA under new guidelines from the Canadian. Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). This is the first time a Canadian farm has been allowed to process fish infected with the disease.
About 240,000 salmon from Cooke Aquaculture's quarantined Coffin
Island Farm near Liverpool, Novia Scotia will be transferred to
New Brunswick for processing.
Mycobacteriosis in fish is a disease that is difficult to detect
and often underdiagnosed. Information
about the effects of this disease on the fish farming industry has been
limited. However, Adam Zerihun's doctoral research into mycobacteriosis has led to the development of two
methods of diagnosis based on real-time PCR and immunohistochemistry
respectively.
A delegation from Nutreco is visiting Ghana is with the potential of investing in the country's poultry and aquaculture feed
industry. Nutreco has a large aquafeed plant in Egypt but is open to new ventures in Africa as Europe is still suffering financially.
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| English: A salmon rose, part of a sashimi dinner set. Taken on 24 Jan 2006 by blu3d. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
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