Bangkok (VNA) – The Thai Government onDecember 21 officially imposed a ban on shrimpimports from India for three months over concerns about the spreading ofinfectious Myonecrosis virus (IMNV) which causes muscle necrosis in shrimps.
Under the decision, Thailand’s Department of Fisheries will stop licensing import of five categories of shrimps – Penaeus esculentus, Fenneropenaeus,Penoeus vannamei, Pernaeus monodon, and Penaeus stylirostris.
Thailand is the second country that applied the ban of shrimpimports from India.
The European Union is also consideringa ban onIndian shrimps following testing of Indian shrimp consignments that foundroutinely high use of antibiotics in shrimp products from the Southern Asiannation.-VNA