Scientists astatine the State Institute of Fisheries Technology (SIFT-Kakinada) person identified Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP), a parasitic disease, arsenic the origin of wide mortality and stunted maturation successful shrimp crossed the Godavari region. An estimated 50,000 acres of shrimp ponds person been affected, with outbreaks causing important losses implicit the past fewer weeks.
SIFT Principal and Additional Director of the Fisheries Department, S. Anjali, confirmed connected Saturday, “The EHP illness has been detected successful samples collected from infected shrimp ponds successful the Godavari region. The corruption appears to beryllium introduced during the proscription of effect from hatcheries to the ponds, and pond contamination is besides contributing to its spread.”
Ms. Anjali further advised farmers to wholly harvest the shrimp and let the ponds to adust for respective weeks to destruct the corruption earlier starting the adjacent crop.
In an authoritative release, Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema District Collector R. Mahesh Kumar stated that farmers should nonstop their shrimp and h2o samples to SIFT-Kakinada for investigating to forestall further losses. District Fisheries Officer P.V. Srinivasa Rao and different officials are actively monitoring the dispersed of the illness successful the district.
