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Infectious Salmon Disease Outbreak in Chile
According to reports from the company although no extraordinary deaths have been reported at the farm, they agreed to the elimination of 303.000 pre-smolts, which is to be carried out together with staff from Chile’s Fisheries Department.
“Currently we are investigating the virus contagion whether it was vertical through the salmon spawns from the Los Lagos Region, purchased in 2007, or horizontally through contamination from a nursery in the area which effectively reported ISA positive in June 2007 but with no clinical symptoms”, said Nova Austral in an official release.
According to Mecropress, Cesar Barros from SalmonChile praised the company for its openness and transparency and said the Chilean government should better support with funds and staff Sernapesca (Fisheries Sanitary Department) to improve prevention and monitoring.
SalmonChile has implemented several self regulatory measures among which more resting time for farming areas; ban on fish movements between farms and stricter controls in processing plants to ensure the 100% elimination of the virus, reports Mecropress.
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