Two diseases decimate PEI’s oyster fisheries
Two diseases, Dermo and MSX, have severely impacted oyster fisheries in Prince Edward Island, leading to the death of nearly all oysters in the region. The industry, valued at $27 million, faces a crisis with no product available for the next few years. Farmers are now looking to import disease-resistant oysters to recover from this devastating loss.
- ▪Dermo and MSX diseases have decimated oyster crops in western PEI.
- ▪The oyster industry in PEI is worth $27 million and is facing a significant crisis.
- ▪Farmers are planning to import MSX-resistant brood stock to help restore their oyster populations.
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Open this photo in gallery:A truck dumps another 10,000 dead oysters onto a mountain of roughly six million shells near the Hope River at Raspberry Point Oyster Co.Vanessa Tignanelli/The Globe and MailShareSave for laterPlease log in to bookmark this story.Log InCreate Free AccountIn better days, the Raspberry Point Oysters processing plant smells like a freshly shucked oyster – clean, salty and reminiscent of the sea. Now, on a May afternoon, as workers dump thousands of pearly shellfish on a conveyor belt near Cavendish, PEI, the stench is rank, a hot-summer-day-in-the-barn smell.
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