INTERNATIONAL FISH DISEASES ROUND UP – NORWAY TROUT IN SEPTICAEMIA OUTBREAK
February 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
NORWEGIAN authorities are seeking to contain two outbreaks of viral haemorrhagic septicaemia virus that has been reported amongst farmed rainbow trout in western coastal Fjordland by the Aquatic Animals Commission - (of the Office International des Épizooties - OIE). The cases have struck at two semi-open salt water farms at Stranda, Indre Sunnmøre, in Møre og Romsdal county. There have been 30,000 deaths in a farm in Ospahjellneset, with 50,000 cases and 700,000 susceptible trout, said the OIE, while in neighbouring Overaaneset Vest, there ...
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