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PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-666
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: training course on exotic diseases of aquatic animals

The major outcomes of this project are: (1) as a result of the Training Course, each State/Territory now has one or two specialists who have recently been updated on the exotic diseases of the aquaculture industries in Australia (i.e., diseases on the National List of Reportable Diseases of Aquatic...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-640
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: subprogram conference ‘Emergency Disease Response Planning and Management’

The 1st FRDC Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram Scientific Conference was held at the Four Points Hotel, Sheraton Eastern Beach, Geelong, 8-10 October 2003. Over 40 representatives from Commonwealth and State Government agencies, from universities and other academic institutions, and from supporting...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
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People development program: Aquatic animal health training scheme - KBBE workshop on diagnostics for mollusc diseases

Project number: 2009-315.24
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $10,980.00
Principal Investigator: Mark S. Crane
Organisation: CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Project start/end date: 20 Mar 2013 - 31 Mar 2014
Contact:
FRDC

Need

In recent years several mollusc diseases (e.g. Perkinsosis, Bonamiasis, AVG, OOD, ostreid herpes viral disease) have impacted, and continue to impact, Australian fisheries and aquaculture. Similar diseases also affect mollusc aquaculture overseas, e.g. Bonamiasis of oysters in Europe, ostreid herpes virus in Europe and New Zealand. The outcomes of past and present efforts to manage diseases in farmed molluscs have been poor, and few controls have been devised for disease outbreaks in wild populations. Thus these diseases have continued to spread partly due to poor international coordination of response to emerging diseases, lack of sensitive and standardised diagnostic tests, no understanding of whether these diseases arose separately in different countries or whether they have spread internationally, poor understanding of mollusc immunity, poor understanding of pathogen biology in the context of host and environmental change, little information about how the infectious agents are spread within populations, lack of coordinated research on improved measures to avoid disease, inability to predict where and when future threats will arise. These factors suggest a need for an internationally based and coordinated multidisciplinary research approach to ensure the sustainability of mollusc aquaculture and wild mollusc populations. This need was recognised internationally and led to the KBBE Forum workshop on "Disease mitigation and prevention in mollusc aquaculture". One recommendation from the workshop was to hold a future KBBE workshop to address issues concerning mollusc disease diagnostics and would align with several key research areas within the FRDC R&D Plan and be of interest to industry and regulators.

Objectives

1. Plan and organise an international workshop "Diagnostics for Mollusc Diseases"
2. Host an international workshop "Diagnostics for Mollusc Diseases"
3. Submit a report to FRDC and KBBE Forum on the international workshop "Diagnostics for Mollusc Diseases"
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