With a growing global human population and an increasing demand for food protein, aquatic
animal protein has become an increasingly important resource. In several geographic areas …

Growth of global aquaculture is affected by increasing number of infectious and contagious
diseases, stressing the importance of biosecurity programs that effectively prevent, control …

The challenges and problems of managing good biosecurity are wide‐ranging and
multifactorial with many compounding factors to pre‐dispose farmed stocks to an increased …

Published in Cooperation with THE WORLD AQUACULTURE SOCIETY Aquaculture loses
millions of dollars in revenue annually due to aquatic animal diseases. Disease outbreaks …

The implementation of biosecurity measures is vital to the future development of
aquaculture, if the culture of aquatic species is to make it possible to feed the global human …

The role of aquatic animals in global food and nutrition security is increasingly recognised.
The global demand for fish is increasing, leading to a need to significantly increase its …

National biosecurity approaches, plans and programmes in response to diseases in farmed
aquatic animals: evolution, effectivenes Page 1 Rev. sci. tech. Off. int. Epiz., 2008, 27 (1) …

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) and the Network of Aquaculture Centres in
Asia-Pacific (NACA), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United …

The potential contribution of aquaculture to national and household food security, poverty
alleviation and income generation (both local and foreign exchange) in many parts of the …

Developing effective, practical, and economically viable approaches to prevent, control, and
potentially eradicate infectious and contagious diseases in aquaculture operations has …