Beating the oyster virus from virus survival time Watch Video
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Description: In 2010 the ostreid herpes (OsHV-1) virus caused up to 90 percent mortality in the wild spat which Pacific oyster farmers rely upon to restock their aquaculture farms. The crisis led to job losses, factory closures and saw an overall drop in production of 50 to 60 percent, with some individual farmers hit significantly harder.nnCawthron Institute was already collaborating with industry on a small-scale Pacific oyster selective breeding programme that had been underway for 10 years. This became m
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