White Spot Outbreak Raises Big Concerns for Future Prawn Farming in Australia
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [AAP] - December 13, 2016
Queensland prawn farmers are facing huge losses and warn of a dire future for the industry if white spot disease spreads.
Queensland prawn farmer Elwyn Truloff has lost $4 million and his life's work to an outbreak of white spot disease.
But he says his losses will pale in comparison to the "disaster" that will unfold if the virus gets away and infects more farms and wild prawn fisheries in Australia.
Biosecurity officials are scrambling to contain the disease after it was detected in prawns taken from the Logan River in the state's southeast and at three of eight land-based prawn farms in the...
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