Biosecurity management

Compartment - means one or more aquaculture establishments under a common biosecurity management system containing an aquatic animal population with a distinct health status with respect to a specific disease or diseases for which required surveillance and control measures are applied and basic biosecurity conditions are met for the purpose of international trade. 

Salerno, Reynolds M. and Gaudioso, Jennifer, Editors, Laboratory Biorisk Management Biosafety and Biosecurity, CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 2015. 

Abstract This chapter looks at the issues surrounding health of finfish and shellfish larvae in the aquaculture environment. The chapter will examine issues such as biosecurity to see how it forms the cornerstone of effective hatchery management and how problems can arise when biosecnrity fails. Then the chapter looks at how the health of the larvae can be manipnlated and how the larvae can be protected from potential pathogens by good management. 

Anniballi, R, Fiore, A., Lofstrom, C., et al., 2013. Management of animal botulism outbreaks from clinical suspicion to practical countermeasures to prevent or minimize outbreaks. Biosecur. Bioterror. 11 (Suppl. 1), S191-S199. 

Treatments may be administered for a variety of reasons other than to manage or attempt to eradicate a parasitic infection. Within a biosecurity... 

Biosecurity through environmental control and best management practices... 

MOSS, S.A., and g.d. pruder. 1999. Shrimp biosecurity environmental management and control. Pages 79-83 in R.A. BulUs and G.D. Pruder (editors) Controlled and Biosecure Production Systems. Evolution and Integration of Shrimp and Chicken Models. Proceeding of a Special Session, World Aquaculture Society, 27-30 April 1999, Sydney, Australia. The Oceanic Institute, Honolulu, HI, USA. 

Key words aquaculture health management, risk analysis, biosecurity, surveillance. 

Risk analysis has a number of applications in aquatic health management, including supporting the development of sanitary measures, broader biosecurity policy and surveillance (Peeler et al., 2007), as well as understanding disease emergence in aquaculture (Murray and Peeler, 2005) and the effects... 

The growth of aquaculture in recent decades has led to an enhanced awareness of biosecurity related to the complexity of the different hazards that represent risks to the industry sector (FAO, 2008b). This, in turn, has put pressure on decision makers that need to be able to use a reliable technique to manage the growing number of risks associated with current trade and production practices. 

Prevention is in the first line of disease management, and the development and implementation of biosecurity strategies for fish diseases is exercised at national level and is embodied in the codes of practice of several international organisations such as the EU 2006 Directive and the OIE code of practice. Oidtmann et al. (2011) provide an overview of international and national biosecurity strategies in aquatic animal health. Preventative measures on the whole require more risk analysis and closer adherence than they currently enjoy so that they may become a higher priority. Unfortunately, the preventative measures most closely adhered to tend to be largely those most closely regulated. Some of these preventative measures as out-fined below are subjected to intensive research and are dealt with elsewhere in this book. 

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