Over the last ten years the South Australia (SA) Oyster Industry has nearly doubled its output, and now contributes nearly one hundred million dollars annually to the Gross State Product (GSP). Coincident with this growth has been an increasing sense within the industry that the mortality rates of...
ORGANISATION:
South Australian Oyster Research Council Pty Ltd (SAORC)
This short-term internship was undertaken at two Universities in Canada over 22 days, commencing 18 November, 2013. The first phase of the program was based at Laval University, Quebec and the second phase was based at The University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
The training at Laval University...
Due to the nature of commercial prawn farming, constraints within the industry such as disease management will always pose problems from managing endemic diseases; such as gill-associated virus in Australia, to exotic diseases including Yellow Head Virus and White Spot Syndrome Virus. The need to...