Quarantine alert might have prevented white spot disease outbreak, review finds

Federal authorities investigating prawn imports did not tell Biosecurity Queensland about breachesThe white spot virus outbreak that devastated prawn farms in south-east Queensland may have been avoided if federal authorities investigating quarantine failures had warned the state’s biosecurity agency, a review has found. The damning assessment is contained in the report of a marine biologist, Ben Diggles, who was contracted to investigate the white spot outbreak by the Fisheries Developmen