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I think one of the reasons noone says anything is due to wanting to be fair to one another. After the earthquake alot of koi got mixed as there was not enough water to keep all the koi from all the breeders as a large number of muds and concrete ponds were emptied and cracked. As well, many oyagoi or potential oyagoi and entire stocks were just gone overnight. The result was that the mixing took place to rescue breeders who had lost thier ponds and also many of their top koi and oyagoi. There was great grief there and the koi community showed it's splendor by coming together to help one another in remarkable ways. In the aftermath there were khv breakouts as well as frantic buying of oyagoi to rebuild lost stock and compete on the show circuit. Tracing it back to it's original source to villify one source in the midst of an aftermath like that, is virtually impossible. To start naming names is unfair because the ones guilted might be the best and most innocent breeders out there. So they chose to handle it their way, to take care of each other. A good cultural lesson for us overly competitive Americans.
Imagine if the dealers here ever started doing that instead of accosting each other via internet chat forums...what a world the koi world would be then. I think mentioning names of folks who have had it in years past is unjust and a cheap shot at this point, and I hope no more names are mentioned or maybe I will recall a few. But hey, maybe someone could pull a few more sales if I mention a few, some who never made it public and claim the koi were kept only in quarantine but eyewitnesses say other wise......see what I mean? I think we need to take a lesson from the Japanese here, and be led by them in this industry, since they are the world leaders in it. Teamwork will snuff the disease out much quicker, using it to snuff out competition only raises the legitimate concern of malicious wrongdoing.
I can state what my intel background would tell me. Given the number of recent breakouts, once it was discovered it could ruin a competitor, a certain % of these breakouts would almost have to be malicious. Find the least affected by the bad news, and the most benefitted, and you have your likely perpetrators to investigate and keep a careful eye on. Enemies or market competitors in commmon are another factor to watch carefully. Especially those with the ability to get koi inside another breeder's facility or a lab to make it in. The two easiest ways to be malicious would be to inject the virus directly into the water from a culture growth of some sort in a hidden vial via a visitor, or to introduce an infected fish or other critter. The most likely source would be one who folks are buying oyagoi from and are trusted who have the ability lab wise to infect koi intentionally before shipping out. So that list of 'trusted sources', has to unfortunately be wiped out and breeders must quarantine oyagoi and resellers must keep their batch for a while before selling and test. That process will also isolate the source and identify it, as well as stopping the spread of naturally occuring KHV. That is with the assumption that we do not discover this disease is somehow genetic in nature and breaks out under certain physiological conditions or ages.
Given that at least in my eyes, intentional wrongdoing is appearing more and more likely, I think it is best if noone mentions where they got infected koi from. Because it is quite possible a visitor intentionally infected them prior to shipping or on arrival. When I see a photo of someone being marched off in handcuffs due to photographic or other evidence proving it was been done intentionally, I will change my thinking.
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