New Research Discovery On Proliferative Kidney Disease In Fish Will Aide In Farmed Fish Industry
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April 25, 2009 10:09 PM
April 25, 2009 10:09 PM
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ScienceDaily (Apr. 24, 2009) reports on a European study of proliferative kidney disease (PKD), a cause of major stock losses on fish farms in England. The study was funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).
PKD has devastated the UK’s fish farming industry. Fish were observed to carry and spread PKD in the new study. The new discovery will give researchers the key to develop better ways to deal with PKD. The research was conducted by Professor Sandra Adams and Dr David Morris at the University of Stirling’s Institute of Aquaculture and is reported in the latest edition of BBSRC Business magazine.
PKD devastates fish, causing inflammation of the kidneys resulting in death of newly introduced fish on infected farms – the estimated annual cost to the UK trout industry alone is £2.5M. Little has been understood about how PKD spread occurs until now. According to the report in Science Daily:
Now scientists have a working model of the life cycle of the parasite, making it possible to develop ways to control PKD. For instance farmed rainbow trout have a "severe immune response" to PKD, which can kill the fish, but brown trout do not.
But, as Prof Adams explains:
There have been recent reports of PKD affecting wild salmon in Europe and North America, indicating that it is an emerging threat to these ecologically and economically important fisheries.
Prof Janet Allen, Director of Research at BBSRC, said:
Hawaii is involved in some fish farming but the incidence of PKD has not been reported. However a great deal of fish farmed elsewhere is sold here.