INTERNATIONAL FISH DISEASES ROUND UP – TASMANIA ABALONE DISEASE OUTBREAK
September 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AUSTRALIAN health officials have successfully attacked an outbreak of abalone viral ganglioneuritis which was discovered in a commercial processing plant in Mornington, near Hobart, Tasmania. The discovery prompted the closure of a 229 square kilometre fishing area, with the seabed in the D'Entrecasteaux Channel between Port Esperance and Southport being closed to commercial and recreational abalone harvesting. All 1,580 abalone in an affected tank of live specimens were removed and destroyed and the plant was disinfected. The usual movement ...
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