While shrimp aquaculture is now worth between USD 12 billion (EUR 10.7 billion) and USD 15 billion (EUR 13.4 billion) annually, it continues to be heavily undermined by its No. 1 pathogen, white spot syndrome virus (WSSV), delegates heard last week at the 2016 Humber Seafood Summit, organized by the U.K. Seafish Authority and held in Cleethorpes, U.K.
According to Grant Stentiford, principal scientific officer at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (Cefas), WSSV has co…