Tasmania’s Abalone Council is supporting calls for a ban on human activity on stretches of the Victorian coastline as the ganglioneuritis virus has jumped 20 kilometres along the Victorian coastline towards Port Philip Bay. Dean Lisson from the Tasmanian Abalone Council informed that the virus is spreading quickly. He added that if precaution has not taken then in next few moths there will be an incursion into South Australia, if not Tasmania.
According to Lisson the Victorian Government has failed to act to preserve the waters from virus and now he has called for a trial of a ban on human activity. According to him if nothing is being done quickly then we have to wait for the disaster to happen. According to the Fisheries Victoria an earlier attempt to isolate the virus was failed. Lisson says the Victorian Government has also failed to phase out the dumping of effluent from aquaculture facilities.
Lisson if needed the coastline should be quarantine effectively to get rid off the virus that could have darkened the future of abalone industry. But the Victorian Government is incompetent to do so as it has not managed this issue fairly till date.
