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Whirling disease hits hard in Utah

Only one of state's commercial sites is without disease
By Ray Grass
Deseret Morning News

Whirling disease has surfaced again — this time completing the circle by hitting Utah's private fish growers.
There are fewer than 10 commercial fish growers in Utah, and after the latest round of testing, only one remains disease free.
Now the question is: What now?

What officials do know is that the release of fish from private growers has infected areas of Utah that were once believed to be disease-free.
"We've now found whirling disease in waters on the south of the Uintas . . . There are a number of newly infected waters, including the Duchesne River and waters around Altamont. We hadn't found whirling disease in these areas before," said Joe Valentine, aquatic culture supervisor for the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources.
Whirling disease starts with a parasite. It is spread by small worms, called tubiflex, which eat the parasite, which in turn are eaten by fish. The parasite causes, among other things, a curving of the spine in fish, which causes them to swim in circles — or whirl — and eventually die. The disease does not affect humans.
Loye West, owner of West Haven Ranch east of Richfield, was informed last November that some of her fish tested positive for the disease.
The ranch was placed under quarantine, which stopped the movement of fish.

"We had 10,000 pounds of fish ready to be shipped when we were notified. We were able to deliver 3,500 pounds to a processor, but we still hold hundreds of thousands of beautiful, healthy fish," she said.
She, along with other fish growers, will appear before the Fish Health Board on Friday to ask for help.
Among the requests presented before the board are:

Fish from the private sector be purchased by the state and planted in disease-positive waters.

Growers be given a one-year variance to sell the fish on the open market. Fish can be sold to processors for consumption, but not stocked. Current requirements are that the fish be destroyed. Once whirling disease was found in two state hatcheries — Midway and Mammoth Creek — nearly a million pounds of fish were immediately destroyed.

West said growers also plan to ask the legislators to downgrade whirling disease from a controlled disease to a reportable disease. This would greatly reduce regulations for transporting and selling diseased fish.

Whirling disease was first found in a private hatchery in Loa in 1991 that was owned by the family of former Gov. Mike Leavitt. While under quarantine, fish from that hatchery were illegally shipped to a private hatchery near Logan, which ultimately became contaminated.
Since that time, whirling disease has spread to a large number of public waters, including such popular waters as Porcupine, Causey, Logan River, Provo River, Weber River, Ogden River and Otter Creek. It has also been found in the Green River above Flaming Gorge.
Also, under the Leavitt administration, control of Utah's wild fish, which brings in close to $500 million in revenue to the state through sport fishing, was taken away from the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources, which had kept the state disease free for more than two decades, and turned over to the Utah Department of Agriculture. At the time, commercial fish ranching was a $3-million-a-year industry.
The Leavitt family has since gotten out of the fish-ranching business.

West said she has already destroyed eggs that were taken to begin this year's age class of fish, "and now we're going to have to start burying some of the smaller fish, those in the range of three to five inches. The fish are getting too large for our ponds and there's nothing else we can do."
Her options at this point are to go from supplying full-grown fish to private ponds to supplying fish to processing plants; to go to great expense to put in new covered raceways; or to find a new line of business.
"We knew there was always the possibility we could get hit by whirling disease, and we did everything possible to make sure we didn't. But we'll do what we have to and get back in business," she said.

Paul Dremann, chairman of the Blue Ribbon Fisheries Advisory Council, said his group strongly supports current rules "regarding transport of live, infected fish. Specifically, the resolution states, 'The BRFAC does not support the transfer of live whirling-diseased fish from one body of water to another body of water within the state of Utah.' "
Valentine said the biggest mistake made in this case was transporting live fish.
"We don't move fish from station to station, only eggs. Eggs you can disinfect, but fish you can't. Anytime you move fish you are at added risk of spreading the disease," he said.
One concern officials have is there are about 400 private ponds in Utah that are stocked by private growers. If there are not enough fish to supply the ponds from within Utah, "people will have to go outside Utah, and that concerns us because we have no control over those fish. We have to rely on agencies outside Utah to check the fish to make sure they're not infected," he said.

There is also serious concern over planting diseased fish in those waters already infected. The more spores released increases the possibility of spreading the disease.
There are six voting members on the Fish Health Board. One represents fish growers, two are from the UDA, one represents sports fishermen and two are from the DWR. Friday's vote is expected to be a tie, with the growers and agriculture in favor of the requests and the DWR and sports fishermen against. If it is a tie vote, and this would be the first time in the history of the board, it would result in "no action."
The next step for growers will be to destroy fish or take the issue to legislators.

 

 

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