The shrimp disease that made headlines last month in China should be a warning to shrimp producers across southeast Asia, Global Aquaculture Alliance President Geoge Chamberlain told IntraFish.
While the disease itself, Decapod iridescent virus 1 (DIV1), has been around for a while, there is certainly "worrisome" evidence that this year there has been a resurgence of it in Chinese shrimp farms and incidences of it in other Asian production.
Only limited tests have been carried out so far, but one "major Chinese company" found a 17 percent incidence rate in 209 samples taken across its farms last month, versus 12 percent in...
