date:Mar 08, 2013
While fish farmers normally wait to harvest their fish until monsoon season from June until October, they are harvesting their fish now in fear that they will die from the heat or parasites, reports the MyanmarTimes.
The most common parasite affecting fish farms is dactylogyrus, a flatworm known to inhabit fish gills, the Myanmar Fish Farmer Association said.
The parasite is temperature dependent: Hotter water temperatures increase the parasites life cycle from only a few days to five or six m