I have been told, that with KHV being a wordwide threat, and Israil being the second biggest exporter of ornamental fish behind Japan, the goverment got involved when KHV hit Israil, and as the British govermnet did when we had foot and mouth, they paid all the fish farmers comensation. They were forced to drain and start from scratch, and as the goverment officials were involved, they were looking to design a fish that would be imune from KHV, and came accross the goldfish carp cross that is imune, but they do get dropsy.
I have freind, who owns Shirley aquitics, and he visits both Japan amd Israil, and is very knowedgable on KHV, with having 3 million quids worth of stock on his books he needs to be!
He tells me that Israil are now the world leaders in export now, as KHV hasent been in the Japan fish, so tells me they could be risky, so buys all from Israil now.
I am also told these F1s are identical to the Carrsio in Italy, so they may well be the same fish!
Fish farmer, your post is very interesting, i couldent find your name and details from your profile, who are you and where are you from?
Last edited by Nigel H; 31st March 2009 at 08:46 PM.
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