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The virus-host relationship, where circulating genotypes of IHHNV co-exist with farmed Pacific white shrimp, is potentially evolving, authors find. 

In Peru, some wild cockle communities have been so overfished that total fishing bans are being considered. A project was therefore established to develop sustainable spat production as a crucial step toward the implementation of a conservation strategy for blood cockles that fosters social aquaculture and stock enhancement. The project rested on the establishment of protocols for reproduction, larval culture and seeding; development of diagnostic tools for molluscan pathogens and the study of blood cockles’ genetic diversity. 

Study in Peru that evaluated three food sources for larval pacu shows that water fleas appear to be a cost-effective substitute for artemia. 

An experiment with WSSV in Peru produced good survival rates in an area where the virus is established and where other efforts have failed.