PHV emerges as leading cause of sardine deaths
The department also examined stomach contents and material rinsed from the fish’s gills but found no harmful algae at densities likely to have caused the mortality.“Of these, 10 fish collected from the mortality event showed consistently high viral levels,” the department said.
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) is continuing to investigate the recent sardine mortality event, with early evidence increasingly pointing to pilchard herpesvirus (PHV) as the leading explanation.
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