Type
Fact sheet
Subject
Publications, News & Resources, Biosecurity, Sustainable Fisheries
The parasite Bonamia ostreae was detected for the first time in New Zealand in early 2015. Overseas, infection with this parasite has been lethal for some flat oyster species.
It is not yet known how Bonamia ostreae would affect New Zealand’s flat oyster (the Bluff or dredge oyster – Tiostrea chilensis) but it is thought that it would be similar to infection with Bonamia exitiosa – a closely related parasite that has been in New Zealand since the 1960s and which has impacted the Bluff oyster fishery in Southland.
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