Aquatic animal health management in aquaculture
Aquaculture has been practiced for over 3 000 years, the earliest record being from China, where common carp was kept. Since then aquaculture has developed in various places all over the world, from a basic practice to super-intensive culture. Market demand for seafood and aquatic animals is one of the factors boosting dramatic change in world aquaculture. Intensive aquaculture is becoming a common practice to achieve maximal production from a single crop. This practice introduces stress to the animals, which in turn causes health problems. Inevitably,chemicals and antimicrobial products are subsequently used to solve the problem, resulting in drug residues in the final products. To avoid these problems, the principles of aquatic animal health management should be applied as an intervention, including assuring good site selection, good water supply,appropriate feed, suitable stocking density, a closed aquaculture system and the use of vaccines. Moving live aquatic animals can also cause transboundary disease outbreaks such as white spot syndrome (WSS) and Taura syndrome (TS) in shrimp, epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) in fish and koi herpes virus disease (KHVD) in common carp. Therefore, a proper programme of quarantine should be strongly applied to prevent this problem.
Supranee Chinabut
Senior Advisor on Fish Diseases Royal Thai Department of Fisheries
国际会议
青岛
英文
103-105
2007-05-29（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）