Chile’s salmon industry needs to collect a lot more data to discover the root causes behind the salmonid rickettsial syndrome (SRS) illness in fish, according to a scientist who was commissioned to study the problem

Despite last year's algal bloom outbreak reducing biomass among all salmonid species, SRS prevalence among Atlantic salmon remains at about 60%, while trout SRS prevalence has gone down due to the reduced biomass, Sophie St. Hilaire, a researcher at University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), told Undercurrent News. The divergence in data between the two species merits further investigation, she said [...]