Plague — Ireland
Investigations are under way after 600 crayfish were killed by crayfish plague in a [County] Cavan river.
Preliminary results indicate the cause of deaths in the River Bruskey, near Ballinagh, to be the incurable, waterborne, fungus type disease.
If this plague becomes established, there is a high probability that white-clawed crayfish, Ireland’s only freshwater crayfish species, will be eliminated from much of the island.
The disease may have been accidentally introduced from
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