FAO Says Tilapia in Lake Victoria Safe for Consumption
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Xinhua News Agency] by Peter Mutai - June 01, 2017
NAIROBI: The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) assured Thursday that tilapia from Lake Victoria are safe for consumption amid spread of a highly contagious disease among the farmed and wild fish species.
FAO Kenya Country Coordinator Gabriel Rugalema said that natural tilapia fish stocks in Lake Victoria have sufficient resistance to survive the virus.
"The virus only affects farmed tilapia where it is spread by birds flying from one pond to the other," Rugalema told Xinhua in Nairobi.
His remarks came amid report that a ...
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