Agriculture Minister Julie Collins has drawn attention to a botched attempt to circumvent Australia's biosecurity laws and ...

THE Department of Science and Technology (DoST) said it is funding a project that addresses viral disease in farmed shrimp using RNA interference-based technology. Researchers from the University of ...

BUILDING resistance of prawns to white-spot disease on a genetic level may be the key to preventing the devastating virus spreading to the Far North’s aquaculture farms.

While there is a 6 per cent year-on-year increase in the production of prawns worldwide, the risk of prawn diseases can cause up to 10 per cent loss in the annual production. Last year, output from ...

Government urged to address prawn disease. The Clarence seafood industry has been crippled by a white spot virus outbreak, ...

Don't miss out on the headlines from Chinchilla. Followed categories will be added to My News. The disease has ravaged Gold Coast prawn farms since it was first detected in the Logan River in ...

The presence of White Spot has been confirmed in an enclosed prawn facility in the north of NSW by NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) and the Australian Centre for Disease Preparednes. White ...

The highly contagious white spot disease has been detected in a NSW prawn farm. Nadine Morton covers emergency services and breaking news for the Illawarra Mercury. She takes pride in regional ...