Step by step guide to a marine water parasite prevention plan (PPP)
By Neil Wendover and Cedric Komar, Intervet Norbio Singapore. This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites.

Candidate Species for Aquaculture: Caribbean Spiny Lobster, Panulirus argus
By Christian L. Miller, Extension Agent-Homestead; Cortney L. Ohs, Assistant Professor, IRREC-Ft. Pierce, and Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences; R. LeRoy Creswell, Marine Extension Agent-Ft. Pierce, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences,...

Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia of Fishes
By Philip E. McAllister - Viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS), a systemic infection of various salmonid and a few nonsalmonid fishes, is caused by a rhabdovirus designated as the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (Office International des Epizooties ...

Fish and DNA chips
By Prof Alan Teale, University of Stirling; Prof Chris Secombes, University of Aberdeen and Dr Glen Sweeney, Cardiff University and published by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) - Research carried out under BBSRC's Exploiting Genomics...

State of world aquaculture: 2006
By the Food and Agriculture Organisation - This document analyses the past trends that have led the aquaculture sector to its current status and describes its current status globally.

Proliferative Kidney Disease
By Charles McGurk, Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling, Scotland and published in Intervet's Aquatic Animal Health Newsletter - Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) has been recognised as a parasitic disease of great economic significance to...

Important Parasitic Diseases In Cultured Marine Fish In The Asia-Pacific Region
By Leong Tak Seng, Zilong Tan and William J. Enright and published by Intervet - Parasitic infections and associated diseases are becoming more frequent with the intensification of mariculture systems in many parts of the Asia Pacific region. In this...

Transfer of diseases between fish farms
By Fiskeriforskning - In collaboration with Norwegian College of Fishery Science, Fiskeriforskning is investigating transfer of bacterial and viral diseases between various farmed fish species in a tank system specially designed for such purposes.

Wastewater and Excreta Use In Aquaculture
By The World Health Organisation - This volume of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Guidelines for the safe use of wastewater, excreta and greywater describes the present state of knowledge regarding the impact of waste-fed aquaculture on the...

Application of Biosecurity in Aquaculture Production Systems
By Cheng Sheng-Lee, The Ocean Institute - A significant challenge to the expansion of aquaculture production is the outbreak of disease. Potential economic losses from disease outbreaks are significant, and can affect the survival of the industry.

Biosecurity and Best Possible Practice
By the Fish Vet Group - The spectre of Foot and Mouth disease (FMD) is still lives with us and it and its ramifications will be around for some considerable time to come- no matter what "officaldom" may (or not) say. It may have left the front pages...

Review of Potential Impacts of Atlantic Salmon Culture on other Salmon Evolutionarily Significant Units
By the National Marine Fisheries Service - This document examines the potential of Atlantic salmon farming in Puget Sound to impose adverse impacts on the Puget Sound chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) and Hood Canal summer-run chum salmon (O....

Shrimp Diseases - methods of prevention
By the Center for Tropical and Subtropical Aquaculture, The Oceanic Institute, Hawaii - This report looks at an outbreak of the Taura Syndrome Virus in a shrimp farm in Hawaii and discusses the symptoms to look out for and methods on prevention.