The microscopic parasite that causes the disease preys on young fish, causing them to swim in a whirling pattern, and often eventually killing them. It has the potential to wipe out entire fish ...
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Whirling disease affecting native fishGRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) — Whirling disease is a waterborne parasite that mainly affects trout and salmon. Aquatic Biologist Kendall Bakich told WestrernSlopeNow the disease was brought to ...
The provincial Ministry of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship says three trout samples from the southern arm of Kootenay Lake have tested positive for the parasite that causes whirling disease.
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