PERU fishing with guts to report…
The National Fisheries Institute (INP) in Ecuador today warned here about the disease from Asia Early Mortality Syndrome (EMS), considered a threat to this important sector of the Ecuadorian economy.
The Director of the INP, Edwin Moncayo reported forms of infection can occur through the transfer of larvae from one place to another without a corresponding analysis notes the newspaper The Telegraph.
On this subject, Moncayo since last September, the South American nation took steps to block the entry of products from contaminated countries said.
So far, the nations that have been attacked by the EMS are China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico and India. “We must be very vigilant that producers use only authorized items and report any new”Said Laurence Massaut, technical advisor to the National Chamber of Aquaculture.
Massaut warned that there is no cure for this disease and although it is different from the white spot, because it is a bacteria and not a virus, have equal or greater impact.
The white spot virus is extremely lethal, it causes high mortality among the Shrimp Population and, as its name implies, causes the appearance of white spots on infected individuals, referred scientific publication www.cyd.conacyt.gob.mx .
According to statistics, the shrimping activity generated in Ecuador around one thousand 300 million dollars in exports in 2012, and is estimated to increase this year.
In addition, 180 thousand families in the Ecuadorian coast, from Esmeraldas to the border with Peru, depend on the sector.
Source: Prensa Latina, Havana.
