Study shows oysters, mussels have low levels of disease, parasites
Friday, February 6, 2015 - 10:00
in Biology & Nature
NOAA's first-ever long-term report of the national distribution of parasites and disease in mussels and oysters, using data gathered between 1995 and 2009, provides a new data set for coastal resource management and shows the occurrence and severity of disease and parasite infections to be generally low nationwide during that time.