The worldwide growth of aquaculture has been accompanied by a rapid increase in
therapeutic and prophylactic usage of antimicrobials including those important in human …

The World Wildlife Fund is facilitating a dialogue on impacts of salmon aquaculture. The
goal of the dialogue is to establish the state of knowledge in seven subject areas associated …

The rise of aquaculture has been one of the most profound changes in global food
production of the past 100 years. Driven by population growth, rising demand for seafood …

Norway has the largest salmon-farming industry in the world, an industry that is still growing,
and in recent years production of marine species like Atlantic cod has also increased. At the …

The Chilean salmon farming industry is currently facing unprecedented economic losses
related to the infectious salmon anemia (ISA) disease. Production of Atlantic salmon is being …

Over the past decade, aquaculture has grown at an average annual growth rate of
approximately 6% worldwide despite many challenges. Viral diseases are one of the major …

The diseases causing the highest ecological and socio-economical impacts in European
farmed finfish are produced by RNA viruses. Salmon, trout, sea bream, sea bass, carp and …

Farmed fish provide an increasing fraction of the human food supply, and are of major
economic importance in many countries. As in the case of terrestrial agriculture, bringing …

A series of recent reports have implicated bacteria from the family Francisellaceae as the
cause of disease in farmed and wild fish and shellfish species such as Atlantic cod, Gadus …

Background Piscine reovirus (PRV) is a newly discovered fish reovirus of anadromous and
marine fish ubiquitous among fish in Norwegian salmon farms, and likely the causative …