AREA EXTENDED: The control zone near Cape Bridgewater to manage an abalone viral ganglioneuritis. Picture: AGRICULTURE VICTORIA
A CONTROL area to manage an abalone viral ganglioneuritis (AVG) outbreak in Victoria’s south-west has been extended past the western edge of Bridgewater Bay.
Further surveillance this week found the aquatic disease, impacting wild abalone in the area, has spread to the control area’s western boundary.
The new control area spans from about one kilometre west of Cape Bridgewater Lookout to Cape Grant in the east.
Victoria’s chief veterinary officer Dr Graeme Cooke said the extension a necessary step to limit the spread of the disease to other abalone populations.