Various medical research projects on finding the cause, origin, and possibly cure of Fade.
It revolves around infecting fish eggs with the genetic disease and dissecting the grown up subjects to observe the course of illness.
This process causes too much suffering over the marine life subjects, and violates both moral and legal standards of all animals, but it is crucial for fighting the disease.
There are multiple alternative ways, but they were either too difficult, too impossibly expensive, or takes too long to be effective.