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A case of Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) has been confirmed in a second oyster growing region in southern Tasmania.
Oysters Tasmania, which represented growers, said the disease was confirmed at Pipe Clay Lagoon, south-east of Hobart.
The deadly oyster disease was first found in Ironstone Oyster’s lower Pittwater lease 30 kilometres away.
It killed all 2.5 million oysters at the lease.
Neighbouring growers in lower Pittwater also reported high mortalities and they are also being treated as POMS.
Oysters Tasmania CEO Neil Stump said the new confirmed case of POMS at Pipe Clay Lagoon is at one lease, but it was expected to spread to others nearby.
POMS is not harmful to humans but has wiped out entire growing regions in New South Wales in recent years.
Local stock movements are banned and New South Wales and South Australia halted all Tasmanian oyster spat imports.
Tasmania supplies 90 per cent of Australia’s pacific oyster spat.
Courtesy of abc.net.au
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