Further outbreaks of Koi Herpes Virus occur in fisheries and public gardens. DEFRA offers advice to the domestic pond keeper.

The RHS have reported that they are now unable to "accept donations of fish" in any of their gardens. This follows the death of over 80% of their fish at Hyde Hall in Essex due to a disase subsequently diagnosed as the deadly Koi Herpes Virus. The Department for the Environment Fisheries, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) has banned all movement of fish in or out of the garden. This is all part of a series of movement bans spreading like a patchwork quilt over the whole of England. This has precipitated DEFRA to offer important advice to the general public. But for those people who are trying to sell fish and particularly Koi to the general public, many people seems all too aware that there are problems in the world of Koi carp and so hardly anybody is buying, nor have they been for some time. 

On the 2nd October 2008 DEFRA announced movements of fish in and out of two fisheries, in Hertfordshire and
Cornwall, have been restricted, following the confirmation of Koi
Herpesvirus (KHV) Disease. These were at

• Broad Colney Lakes, London Colney, Hertfordshire; and
• Whiteacres Fishery, Whiteacres Holiday Park, Newquay, Cornwall.

On the 25th September 2008 movements of fish in and out of a fishery in East Sussex were
restricted, following the confirmation of Koi Herpesvirus (KHV)
Disease.

A Designated Area Order prohibiting the movement of
fish to and from  Moor Hall Pools (Old Lake and New Lake), Moor Hall
Farm, Ninfield, Nr Battle, East Sussex.

4th September 2008, movements of fish in and out of Earlswood Lakes, Norton Lane,
Earlswood, Solihull, West Midlands were restricted including movements to and from adjacent waters, known as Mereside Pools.

28th August 2008, movements of fish in and out of Weller Pool, Lynsters Lakes,
Coppermill Lane, Maple Cross, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire have been
restricted, following the confirmation of Koi Herpesvirus (KHV)
Disease.  Movements of fish in and out of the adjacent waters in the
Colne River Valley, Hertfordshire and Greater London Area have also
been restricted.

DEFRA are at pains to point out that the disease is not a threat to humans although many peoples' livlihoods are at stake.

For the domestic water gardener seeking more definitve information on the symptoms of the disease and how to deal with it there is a docuememtnthat can be dowloaded from the DEFRA website or you can go straight to the PDF from here at :    Koi Herpesvirus (KHV) Disease: Garden Ponds and Aquaria (PDF 644 KB). The efish business website (http://www.efishbusiness.co.uk/default.asp) is also a mine of information in regards to the research and the efforts emplyed in trying to contain the disease and is in fact the original source of the PDF document.