From horror movie to hatchery—there’s a real “Thing” creeping through aquaculture systems, and it’s not fiction. Tenacibaculum, a bacterial menace, spreads silently and strikes hard, causing devastating losses for producers around the world. But this Halloween, there’s good news: science is fighting back.

Onda’s expanded Tenacibaculum platform—now including T. maritimum, T. dicentrarchi, and T. finnmarkense—gives innovators the tools to test vaccines, feeds, and treatments before they hit the water.