Challenges Loom for P.E.I.'s Wild Oyster Fishers as Fall Season Gets Underway
The fall season for P.E.I.'s wild oyster fishers has begun, and the industry is bracing for challenges as it faces two different diseases that can be deadly for oysters.
Neither disease poses any risk to humans eating oysters, but both cause increased mortality rates among the molluscs.
Dermo was confirmed in oysters from Egmont Bay in July, one year after MSX, short for multinucleate sphere, was first detected in Island waters.
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