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OIE international standards on aquatic animals
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide. It is recognised as a reference organisation by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ...
Aquatic emergency preparedness and response system in Viet Nam
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
Viet Nam is one of the top worldwide producers of aquaculture products which accounts for about 22 percent of total agricultural GDP of Viet Nam. Recently, diseases have become the biggest challenge for global aquaculture ...
FAO TCP/INT/3501: Emergency preparedness and response systems capacity and performance self-assessment survey
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
The purpose of this survey is to obtain information on national capacity and the agencies mandated to implement emergency preparedness and response systems with respect to aquatic animal diseases. The results of this survey ...
Emergency preparedness and contingency plans to aquatic animal disease emergencies
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
Emergency preparedness is the ability to respond effectively and in a timely fashion to aquatic animal disease emergencies (e.g. disease outbreaks, mass mortalities). It is a key element of a National Strategy on Aquatic ...
Emergency response to emerging diseases: TiLV in tilapia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a novel RNA virus resembling Orthomyxovirus. It has been recently re-classified to Tilapia tilapinevirus species, under Tilapinevirus genus, Amnoonviridae family (ICTV, 2018). Since the first ...
Transboundary aquatic animal diseases: History and impacts in ASEAN aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
Aquaculture is one of the important sectors in the economy of most Asia-Pacific countries. However, majority of aquaculture farms are small-scale and most often lack the necessary facilities to comply with or are not well ...
Risk analysis in aquaculture
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
The information presented in this paper were taken from several key FAO documents. The objective is to continuously raise awareness about the concept of risk analysis and its application to the aquaculture sector.
The paper ...
Emergency preparedness and response systems for aquatic animal diseases in Malaysia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
The Department of Fisheries (DoF) Malaysia is the custodian of the Fisheries Act 1985, which serves as the main legislative source for subsidiary regulations, including aquaculture and fish health management. It has ...
Emergency preparedness and response system in Indonesia
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
The Competent Authority (CA) on aquatic animal health in Indonesia is the Directorate Aquaculture Area Development and Fish Health of the Directorate General of Aquaculture (DGA) under the Ministry of Marine Affairs. CA ...
Fish disease control in Japan
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
The regulatory authority responsible for the control of aquatic animal diseases in Japan is the Animal Products Safety Division, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries ...