Other Animal Disease — United States
In the event Northeast Tennessee anglers haven’t had enough troublesome news to tide them over, we’ve got more.
The presence of whirling disease — [caused by] a dreaded neurological parasite that cripples rainbow trout — has been discovered in the Watauga River near Foscoe, N.C. The infestation was confirmed by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission late last month [July 2015].
The infected area is part of the upstream tributary that feeds Watauga Lake. That alone is
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