Oyster Deaths Remain A Mystery

The Department of Fisheries has studied 7,000 oysters from pearl farms and carried out 800 tests looking for disease.

The investigation was launched after a large number of deaths at nine farms in the Exmouth Gulf, in the state's north-west, in October last year.

Principal fish pathologist Brian Jones says the tests have not identified a cause for the deaths.

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Source: ABC

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