date:Jul 25, 2012
er, and later in trout at a hatchery in Otago.
The success of New Zealand salmon farming is in part due to the fortunate history that several species of [salmon] were introduced, but their diseases, in the main, were not, he said.
This meant New Zealand salmon farmers did not need to vaccinate their stock.
Chinook were resistant to potentially devastating infectious salmon anaemia (ISA), which affected atlantic salmon, Mr Forsythe said. Reports that chinook in Canada had tested positive for I