Aquaculture quality control requirements

To develop susceptibility test guidelines that cover all the bacterial species that are encountered in aquaculture is a mammoth task. Significant progress has been made but much is still to be done (Table 7.1). Essentially these guidelines can be thought of as comprising three sections covering the test protocols, the quality control requirements and the interpretive criteria. 

SMITH p (2008c), How difficult is it to achieve compliance with the quality control requirements of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute s guideline M42-A , Aquaculture, 276,1-4. 

Intensive or extensive culture of aquatic animals requires chemicals that control disease, enhance the growth of cultured species, reduce handling trauma to organisms, improve water quality, disinfect water, and control aquatic vegetation, predaceous insects, or other nuisance organisms. The aquacultural chemical need for various species have been described for rainbow trout, Oncorhjnchus mjkiss (1) Adantic and Pacific salmon, Salmo and Oncorhjnchus sp. (2) channel catfish, Ictaluruspunctatus (3) striped bass, Morone saxatilis (4) milkfish, Chanos chanos (5) moUusks (6) penaeid (Penaeus sp.) shrimp (7) and a variety of other marine species (8). 

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