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White spot prawn disease now endemic to wild populations in Queensland’s Moreton Bay region
White spot disease is now endemic in wild prawn populations in south-east Queensland’s Moreton Bay region.
Key points:
- Agriculture Minister Mark Furner says the deadly prawn disease is now “established in the wild”
- Queenslanders have been urged to buy locally produced prawns
- The disease first started with an outbreak in 2016
Authorities had previously been trying to eradicate the disease but will instead move to contain and control it.
Agriculture Minister Mark Furner told ABC Radio Brisbane the Aquatic Consultative Committee on Emergency Animal Disease had declared the disease as “established in the wild”.
The new classification means efforts will no longer be focused on eradicating the virus but instead on containing and controlling it…
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