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People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-206
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Sydney rock oyster hatchery and nursery health workshop

Mass of mortality over the past decade in routine mass hatchery and nursery rearing to produce the millions of spat required for commercial operation. These same problems have also forced the abandonment of SRO production operations by several commercial hatcheries elsewhere in NSW. three...
ORGANISATION:
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (NSW)
People
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-665
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: enhancement of the emergency disease management capability in Victoria - adapting the AQUAVETPLAN control centre management manual

In the past 20 years, many fisheries and aquaculture industries around the world have suffered major production losses through the impact of disease epidemics. To date, Australia has avoided many of these epidemics and retains a favourable disease status, which facilitates international trade and...
ORGANISATION:
Agriculture Victoria
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-245
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: model development for epidemiology of Amoebic Gill Disease

Amoebic Gill Disease (AGD) is the main health problem affecting salmon industry in Southern Tasmania. To improve management of fish with AGD on the farms, the industry needs better understanding of AGD epidemiology. This will provide a basis on which to develop strategies for new...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2001-244
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquafin CRC - Atlantic Salmon Aquaculture Subprogram: host-pathogen interactions in Amoebic Gill Disease

This project significantly increased our knowledge and understanding of Amoebic Gill Disease (AGD). We developed tools and techniques applicable to further research on AGD and other fish diseases. This project contributed to education and training in the area of fish health. Five PhD...
ORGANISATION:
University of Tasmania (UTAS)

People development program: 2012 FRDC International Travel Bursaries - Dr Joy Becker

Project number: 2008-314.29
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $5,517.00
Principal Investigator: Joy Becker
Organisation: University of Sydney (USYD)
Project start/end date: 22 Jul 2012 - 30 Sep 2012
Contact:
FRDC

Need

In FRDC 2007/007 and FRDC 2009/044, it was determined that ornamental fish entering Australia are a source of exotic pathogens, such as cyprinid herpesvirus 2 (CyHV2). This is of particular relevance for goldfish, where domestic breeders claim that their stock succumb to CyHV2 disease when brought into contact with imported goldfish in wholesale and retail premises. CyHV2 only affects goldfish and was addressed in the 1999 IRA as being exotic to Australia. Recent research findings from FRDC 2009/044 indicated that CyHV2 is present in domestic Australian goldfish populations. On 1 September 2011, Biosecurity Australia amended the health certification requirements for the importation of goldfish and no longer requires fish to be certified free of CyHV2.

The detection of CyHV2 and other exotic aquatic pathogens (e.g. gourami iridovirus) was achieved through the application of molecular techniques, such as PCR. Correctly applied and interpreted, molecular approaches offer unique opportunities to understand the local and global spread of a disease. The advancement of molecular approaches is required to safeguard Australia against pathogen incursions through the processes of informed policy development and import risk analysis.

There is a need to disseminate the research that determined that CyHV2 is now established in Australia and how scientific evidence was used to change national biosecurity policy to the international scientific community. There is also a need to ensure the availability of people with specialised training in molecular epidemiology in Australia to stay at the forefront of the application of this technology.

Objectives

1. To present findings from the project titled FRDC 2009/044 "Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: Surveys of ornamental fish for pathogens of quarantine significance” at the 13th conference of the International Society for Veterinary Epidemiology and Economics (ISVEE 13) to be held from 20 - 24 August 2012 in the city of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2. To complete a three day pre-conference workshop titled “Molecular Epidemiology - applications, tools and case studies”.
Industry
PROJECT NUMBER • 2016-801
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Future oysters CRC-P: Enhancing Pacific Oyster breeding to optimise national benefits

The research was conducted as a direct consequence of the 2016 Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome (POMS) outbreak TAS which decimated parts of this State’s Pacific Oyster (Crassostrea gigas) industry and caused numerous flow on effects throughout the entire Australian industry. The project was...
ORGANISATION:
Australian Seafood Industries Pty Ltd (ASI)
Industry
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