Mass Oyster Die-Off Reported in Southern Vietnam
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Vietnam News Summary] April 14, 2015
Oysters being raised at Tan Thanh Commune in Go Cong Dong District in the southern province of Tien Giang have died en masse during the past three weeks.
Nguyen Thi Men, director of the Tien Giang Department of Animal Health, said that dead oysters filled more than 1,100ha of the 1,212ha farmed. It is calculated that more than 11,300 tonnes of the shellfish died.
Ngo Phi Truong, chairman of the Tan Thanh Commune People's Committee, said that the incident was a repeat of what had happened at the beginning of 2013, which wiped out oysters worth VND300 billion (US$14.2 million)...
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