Project Completion Report on ‘Establish Aquatic Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory Project’

Abstract

Fishtech Laboratory is the first Real-Time PCR-based molecular laboratory in Bangladesh which is specialized in diagnosing a wide range of disease-causing pathogens of fish and shrimp as well as in providing testing facilities of many water and soil parameters of the culture ponds. There are three major units of the laboratory (i) Molecular Unit (detects 11 number of viruses & bacteria) (ii) Bacteriological Unit (provides 5 types of bacteriological tests) and (iii) Water & Soil Unit (determines 20 types of soil & water quality parameters) which are compulsory for the sustainable fish & shrimp farming. Fishtech (Bd) Limited established the laboratory through partnership with USAID funded Feed the Future Bangladesh Aquaculture Activity (BAA) project implemented by WorldFish during October 2019 to February 2021.