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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
TAGS
Training
Disease
Animal Health
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
TAGS
White Spot Disease
Training
Fisheries Management
Disease
Conference
Environment
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Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of a training course on exotic diseases of aquatic animals

Project number: 2002-654
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $28,890.00
Principal Investigator: Ken McColl
Organisation: CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Project start/end date: 30 Oct 2002 - 30 Jun 2005
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Training
Education
Disease
Aquaculture
Animal Health

Objectives

1. Prepare material to be used providing a training course on recognition and management of exotic disease outbreaks.
2. Organise material into a format which will facilitate delivery and up-date of a training course, at AAHL, on recognition and management of exotic disease outbreaks.

Final report

ISBN: 0-643-09128-9
Author: Ken McColl
Final Report • 2004-07-01 • 2.75 MB
2002-654-DLD.pdf
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Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: establishment of diagnostic expertise for detection and identification of red sea bream iridovirus (RSIV)

Project number: 2003-620
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $512,023.00
Principal Investigator: Mark S. Crane
Organisation: CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Project start/end date: 29 Apr 2003 - 15 Aug 2006
Contact:
FRDC
TAGS
Disease
Diagnostic
Biotechnology
Animal Health

Need

The establishment and further development of diagnostic capability for the detection and identification of RSIV is required as part of the enhancement of Aquatic Animal Health in Australia as envisaged by AQUAPLAN and the FRDC Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram. Marine aquaculture in Australia is on the threshold of a major expansion (ACIL Consulting 1999, Aquaculture beyond 2000) for which disease incursions are considered a significant threat. The establishment of AQUAPLAN and the FRDC Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram has allowed the development of contingencies should emergency disease outbreaks occur.

Aquaculture, including mariculture, is featured in Federal and State Governments’ strategic plans and is seen as providing Australia, especially regional Australia, with many benefits, such as economic and employment growth, additional income for the rural sector, regional development, and increased exports. An example of this growth is tuna (Thunnus macoyii) farming which has developed rapidly from an R&D project supported by the South Australian Government and the Tuna Boat Owners Association of Australia in the early 1990s to a multimillion dollar sector which currently includes more than 12 farming areas. The majority of product is sold fresh chilled to Japanese markets (SAFRAB, 1998).

Further examples include snapper (Pagrus auratus) farming which was initiated more recently as R&D projects in Western Australia and South Australia and has developed into a commercial industry with plans for further expansion, and yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) is another species currently farmed in South Australia with potential for expansion.

Related species from the Thunnus, Pagrus and Seriola genera are reported to be susceptible to RSIV (Matsuoka at al. 1996; OIE, 2000).

References
ACIL Consulting. 1999. Aquaculture beyond 2000. Facilitator's Report, prepared by Denis Hussey, Senior Associate, ACIL Consulting, on a workshop, Changing Direction, held 23-24 August 1999, Canberra.

SAFRAB. 1998. http://www.fishresearch.sa.gov.au/home.htm

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/aqua/broc/aqwa/snapper/index.html

Matsuoka S, Inouye K. & Nakajima K. 1996. Cultured fish species affected by red sea bream iridoviral disease from 1991 to 1995. Fish Pathol 31: 233-234.

OIE. 2000. OIE Diagnostic Manual for Aquatic Animal Diseases, 3rd edition.

Objectives

1. Import into AAHL isolates of RSIV from OIE reference laboratory and/or other laboratories
2. Import GF cell line from OIE reference laboratory or other laboratory
3. Import diagnostic antibodies from OIE reference laboratory and/or other laboratories
4. Establish conditions for isolation of virus in cell culture
5. Establish and validate PCR for virus identification
6. Raise polyclonal antiserum specific for RSIV
7. Evaluate polyclonal antiserum as a diagnostic reagent
8. Document a standard diagnostic test for detection and identification of RSIV
9. Draft Final Report
10. Finalise and submit Final Report

Final report

ISBN: 0-643-09365-6
Final Report • 2006-10-17
2003-620-DLD.pdf
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