Protect your Salmon and Trout - VirKon disinfectant offers fishing tackle disinfection in one safe cleaning action!
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Salmon and Trout Protection - Protect your Salmon and Trout from deadly parasite Gyrodactylus salaris
January 2007.
How do you disinfect
your fishing tackle with Virkon:
Fishing equipment should be cleaned of all mud and debris, It should then be immersed or sprayed with 1% solution of Virkon disinfectant. The disinfectant should then be rinsed off with clean water.
VirKon is available ex-stock from R.M.S in both powder and tablet form at very competitive prices + *Free Delivery!!!! . VirKon should be made up to a 1% solution with water to form a pink solution. The solution will stay active for around 5 days. The solution kept out of direct sunlight.
What is the Gyrodactylus salaris parasite?
Gyrodactylus salaris is a parasite which
infects the skin, gills and fins of salmon,
trout and some other types of freshwater
fish. The parasite is less than a half
millimetre in size, and is barely visible to
the naked eye and can cause serious damage
to some strains of Atlantic salmon. The
parasite is very hardy and may be introduced
by fishermen as it is capable of surviving
for several days in damp conditions such as
plastic bags, wet angling equipment and on
the surface of dead fish.
Gyrodactylus salaris occurs naturally in the
Baltic rivers of Finland and Russia, where
the native fish are tolerant to the parasite
and normally any infection causes them no
harm. In areas where the parasite does not
occur naturally, salmon trout and other
freshwater fish have little or no tolerance.
In Norway between 1970 and 2002 salmon
stocks on 44 rivers have been infected as a
result of infection by Gyrodactylus salaris.
Means to eradicate the parasite are very
costly. The Norwegian remedial work is very
destructive and this work has involved
treating whole catchment areas.
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