Cork firm, MicroSynbiotiX Ltd, to remove €9bn fish cost with vaccination technology

An Irish company is aiming to eliminate a $10bn (€8.93bn) problem in aquaculture and remove harmful antibiotics from the food chain with its pioneering vaccination technology.

Aquaculture — or fish farming — is responsible for half the world’s seafood productivity and worth as much as $200bn globally and €149m in Ireland.

Approximately 5% of the world’s fish stock is lost to infectious disease at a cost of more than $10bn annually.