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Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Fish epidemiology and health economics
Type: Tool
The absence of accurate baseline data on fish health and production, farm management practices, disease occurrence and mortalities, and the economic value of disease-related losses hampers disease control efforts by farmers ...
Aquatic Animal Health Package of Practices: Syndromic surveillance and disease outbreak characterization
Type: Tool
WorldFish has developed a package of practices for syndromic surveillance and disease outbreak investigation. It contains all the necessary resources for building the awareness and capacity of relevant actors in aquatic ...
Sampling materials for fish disease diagnostics
Type: Tool
Infectious diseases represent one of the major challenges and limitation to sustainable aquaculture. They can have major impacts on animal welfare, livelihood of farmers and threaten the health of captive stocks and wild ...
End user guidelines: How to sign up and access the fish sampling microlearning curriculum on Learn.ink
Type: Manual
Learn.ink is an online platform for digitized learning and training. Sharing digital content on mobile devices is important for efficient knowledge sharing and training to work with target community groups on a range of ...
In situ fatty acid production supports shrimp yields in diets lacking fish oil and fishmeal
Type: Journal Article
Using capture fishery‐derived fish oil and fishmeal in aquafeeds is unsustainable. This study mimicked semi‐intensive shrimp ponds, including primary producers, in mesocosm tanks. Fatty acid mass balances were computed to ...
Evaluating antimicrobial resistance in the global shrimp industry
Type: Journal Article
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing threat to global public health, and the overuse of antibiotics in animals has been identified as a major risk factor. With high levels of international trade and direct connectivity ...
Diagnosis in a fish farmer’s backpack
Type: Video
Fish underpin future nutritional security, supplying high quality protein, iron, iodine and vitamin A that are critical to childhood development and deficient in many staple foods. In 2018, 54.1 million tonnes of fish were ...
Species composition in the Molobicus hybrid tilapia strain
Type: Journal Article
The “Molobicus” hybrid breeding programme was initiated to improve tilapia growth performance in brackish water. The base population was created by backcrossing F1 Oreochromis niloticus GIFT strains × feral O. mossambicus ...
Fish for whom? Integrating the management of social complexities into technical investments for inclusive, multifunctional irrigation
Type: Brief
Most interventions in the water sector remain technocratic and blind to trade-offs that undermine
overall development outcomes. The relationship between irrigation and inland capture fisheries is
a case in point, as ...
Autogenous vaccination in aquaculture: A locally enabled solution towards reduction of the global antimicrobial resistance problem
Type: Journal Article
Antimicrobial resistance is a global public health crisis with attention focussed on food supply as part of the ‘One Health’ integration of veterinary, environmental and public health. Aquaculture has been the fastest ...