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PROJECT NUMBER • 1995-176
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Report on options for reducing the dependancy of the Australian aquaculture industry, ornamental fish industry, commercial and recreational fishing industry and stockfeed industry on imported aquatic imports

In 1995 a National Task Force on Imported Fish and Fish Products was set up by the then Minister for Primary Industries and Energy, Senator Bob Collins and the Minister for Resources, David Bedall. This was in response to a number of events which had raised concern within Australia regarding the...
ORGANISATION:
Aquaculture Development and Veterinary Services
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Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: development of strategies for improved stock loss insurance and for development of a cost-sharing arrangement for emergency disease management in aquaculture

Project number: 2003-600
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $32,860.00
Principal Investigator: Iain East
Organisation: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project start/end date: 30 Dec 2002 - 13 Aug 2004
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Need

Since the advent of AQUAPLAN in 1998, despite the presence of a model in the terrestrial animal cost-shaing arrangement, the issue of a cost-sharing arrangement for funding of the response to an aquatic animal emergency disease incident has not been substantively progressed. Similarly the issue of obtaining compensation for compulsory slaughter through insurance cover has not been substantively progressed.
This project is needed to clearly define the steps required to progress these issues and develop a draft plan for consideration by stakeholders.

Objectives

1. The development of clear recommendations on how to resolve the current problems associated with the issues of compensation for compulsory slaughter and crop loss insurance.
2. The development of an implementation strategy for the establishment of a cost-sharing arrangement covering compensation for compulsory slaughter of animals in the aquaculture industries

Final report

ISBN: 0-9751859-1-8
Author: Iain East
Final Report • 2004-03-25 • 773.83 KB
2003-600-DLD.pdf

Summary

Successful completion of this project has lead to establishment of a clear pathway for aquaculture industries to access compensation for government ordered slaughter of stock as part of the response to an emergency disease incident. The pilot study provides specific details of the costs and mechanisms involved for the salmonid industry to join Animal Health Australia, become a signatory to the Emergency Animal Disease Response Agreement and have diseases of salmonids added to this agreement.

The full benefits flowing to stakeholders will be realized if the various aquaculture industries decide to adopt the recommendations of this study and avail themselves of the existing arrangements for the provision of compensation for government ordered slaughter of stock.

Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2019-089
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Evaluation of point of care (POC) tests for White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV)

The CSIRO Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) Fish Diseases Laboratory (AFDL), in collaboration with Biosecurity Queensland, conducted a laboratory-based evaluation of commercially available point-of-care (POC) tests designed to detect white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) in the field. The...
ORGANISATION:
CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
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Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: aquatic animal health emergency management training and incident simulation

Project number: 2002-664
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $15,004.00
Principal Investigator: Melanie Ryan
Organisation: Seafood Training (SA)
Project start/end date: 29 Jun 2002 - 31 Oct 2004
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Need

The South Australian seafood industry is possibly the fastest growth industry in the State having climbed rapidly to a position of the State’s 5th largest export industry with a production value of almost $650 million. The entire seafood industry has doubled in size every two and a half years since 1994 and is expected to break the $2 Billion barrier before 2010. The strongest growth has been recorded in the aquaculture sector of the seafood industry which is now nearing $400 million worth of annual value.

The aquaculture industry is made up of land based and marine based operators. The largest South Australian sectors are all marine-based with tuna, oysters and marine finfish all strongly performing. The relatively new mussel industry is currently in a major expansion phase. The most significant land based industry is abalone.

The aquaculture industry in South Australia has expanded considerably over the past twelve months, however there are little or no available disease emergency management plans or training courses for this industry. With further rapid expansion planned for the marine finfish industry, the tonnages of farmed fish will rise very rapidly over the next eight to ten years. There are currently approximately 3000 tonnes of fish currently in the water (non tuna) and this figure is expected to rise to some 10,000 tonnes by 2010. Research priorities have centred on the reproduction and grow-out of new species and have often overlooked the threat of specific disease(s) until they occur.

It is imperative for the successful management of aquatic animal health issues that an immediate, proactive approach be adopted. A continuing reactive stance towards disease management is hazardous, causing high risk to both the industry and the environment, and greater exposure to negative public sentiment, let alone the potential scale of the economic loss.

The aquaculture industry has made serious attempts to train as many personnel as possible and for the past two years the two principal training providers, the Australian Fisheries Academy and the Spencer Institute of TAFE have been training record numbers of personnel.

Seafood Training SA is the industry’s peak body on all training and development support matters. The organisation is the only seafood body in the State that has representation from all industry sectors and peak bodies as well as relevant Government agencies and undertakes detailed research on industry training needs.

Following a series of discussions with sector bodies last year, it was identified that the industry lacked relevant training in emergency management procedures for aquatic animal health. Whilst basic training in aquatic animal health and emergency procedures forms part of the new Seafood Industry Training Package, a large number of both employers and employees have no formal training or access to materials that meet their specific needs.

There is currently an urgent need to develop a number of structured Aquatic Animal Health Emergency Procedures Manual and accompanying training workshop(s) specifically for the each of the State’s burgeoning aquaculture industry sectors and ensure that all staff from farm hand operatives through to farm managers are conversant with the procedures.

Objectives

1. The identification of strategies to effectively manage aquatic animal health emergencies.
2. The provision of responsive aquatic animal health emergency training workshops for both employers and employees of the aquaculture industry.

Final report

ISBN: 646422782
Author: Melanie Ryan
Final Report • 2004-10-07 • 4.27 MB
2002-664-DLD.pdf

Summary

Following some initial research in 2001, it was found that the aquaculture industry lacked relevant training in emergency management procedures for aquatic animal health. There was a dangerous perception that all animal health matters were the preserve of external specialists and a few biologists within the industry. There was a singular lack of both knowledge and responsibility for aquatic animal health and in most cases not even basic procedures for managing a health emergency. This resulted in the development of a project to provide training to the industry on what to do, who to contact, what steps were required to deal with the emergency and how to contain it. The concept of a short workshop program to provide basic knowledge and some practical tools was seen as an important precursor to a larger industry planning process for aquatic animal health emergencies.
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