Panaji: Cave Country Fish, Belanak continues to suffer from an infection called Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS) because of a little specimen with a random surface of skin diseases in several regions.
Adding this is the lack of sustainable research that has hidden the problem.
This condition affects lovelans and some other estuary fish species have been reported in the past.
“This is purely organic pollutants such as waste that encourage pseudomonas growth, bacteria that infect the skin, gills, mouth and fish fins,” said Joe D’Souza, said a retired Professor of Goa University (GU).
The microbiology that has studied the first outbreak of EUS with GU, S Kudchadkar students and has then published the findings.
Fishermen in Mandur have reported the scattered EUS incidence.
“Some belaning in catches have abrasions or bloody patches near the gills and other parts,” Agusto Pereira, a percernized gate operator at Mandur said.
But the fisheries department did not know about this syndrome.
“There are no cases reported to the department and are difficult to talk about the cause factors,” said Director of the Fisheries Department, said Shamila Monteiro.
Ulcerative syndrome was reported near the shrimp hatcheries in St Estevam and Chorao around the early 1990s.
Pearl spots are influenced by skin diseases while also about the bellelet species in Teulim in Tiswadi, Shiroda in Ponda and Curorim in Salcete.
The EU attacked the fish mostly during the rainy season when the fertilizer and run-off organic Leach into the water and spread with flow.
The catch looks not worth consuming and must be discarded.
“The percentage of populations affected is unknown but mostly occur in areas where water is polluted by industry sources and others stagnate for a longer period in the water body,” said Biological Scientists, said Nio Baban Ingole.
In 2014, another pollution episode triggered by similar conditions caused Tisreo (shellfish) mass mortality in the musher, correct.
Team three members consisting of D’Souza and Mahesh Prabhu, a water treatment specialist has conducted microbiological analysis and found that pollution continues to have an impact on the Bivalve population.
“Pseudomonas bacteria and fecal coliform together scavenge oxygen and make anaerob water, strangle the scallops to death,” said this study.
The study connects the causes of poisonous pollution to large dirt flows, dry ice disposal and other waste released by more than 200 fishing vessels and around 2,000 fish workers in Cutbona Jetty.
“More comprehensive studies are needed to study EU problems as pseudomonas bacteria have become resistant to pollution,” said D’Souza.
In the past few weeks the mullets show signs of recovery because the rainy season comes close.