White spot fight continues in East Africa

Thanks in part to a Responsible Aquaculture Foundation case study conducted in May, work on reducing the risk of white spot syndrome virus at shrimp farms in East Africa through improved management and policy is progressing.

The case study dealt with a white spot outbreak at shrimp farms in Mozambique and Madagascar. A team of aquaculture professionals and academics traveled to East Africa to meet with farmers and other stakeholders to review the chronology and impact of the white spot outbreak and discuss strategies to control the disease.

While the remote location of each farm forces farmers to be independent and self sufficient, the whit spot outbreak has introduced the need for increased cooperation in both the public and private sectors. The stakeholders have agreed on four areas of common interest: surveillance of white spot prevalence in a wild crustaceans plan, biosecurity measures at the farm level, development of specific pathogen free WSSV-resistant postlarvae, and regional cooperation among national agencies and producer associations.

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