Diver anger over failed abalone plan

ABC News - 

Tasmania's abalone industry has suggested the State Government must accept some of the blame for the outbreak of a deadly virus in wild fish off the east coast.

Initial tests on wild fish near the out-flow of an abalone farm near Bicheno have tested positive for the ganglioneuritis virus at low levels.

While they have tested positive for viral DNA, they have not got the disease and there is still a chance they have developed immunity.

Further results are expected later in the week.

Dean Lisson of the Abalone Council says the Government has failed to fully implement the industry's biosecurity plan.

"The chances of it happening would have been much reduced had our biosecurity plan been rolled out as was originally agreed upon a couple of years ago," he said.

"The fact that hasn't happened is a sad indictment mainly on the Government because they have chosen not to make the resources available."

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