Aquatic Animal Health Management
Implement risk-based health assessment and management practices to protect and support the care and growth of farm-raised aquatic animals and to prevent pathogen introduction, spread, or release.
Aquatic animal health management encompasses animal physiology, farm management, diagnostic and treatment options, health professional education and training, life stage nutrition and feed quality, optimizing plant derived nutrition, epidemiology, and risk management (farm and livestock insurance).
Health management:
- Farm management.
- Veterinarian and fish health professional – education and training.
- Therapeutant development and testing – vaccines and medicines.
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- Anti-microbial risk assessment.
- Risk management:
- Insurance.
- Pathogen horizon scanning.
- Zoonotic pathogens.
- Animal Nutrition:
- Live feeds – larval nutrient delivery system
- Nutrient retention
- Palatability
- Production system specific feeds
- Life stage specific feeds
- Plant-based feed optimization