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Aquatic animal health training scheme - Updating and improving existing practical skills and knowledge to support the effective delivery of vocational aquatic animal health

Project number: 2009-315.10
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $8,371.00
Principal Investigator: Jacqui Johnson
Organisation: North Coast TAFE
Project start/end date: 26 Jun 2011 - 27 Dec 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

There is a lack of practical skills for on farm fish health investigation and disease management. The National Aquatic Animal Health Technical Working Group (NAAH-TWG) April 2008 workshop highlighted - 'There is ongoing concern that there are too few suitably trained and accredited aquatic animal health professionals to service Australia’s fisheries and aquaculture industries and to ensure succession to a new generation of aquatic animal health professionals.' More recently Dr John Humphrey's presentation at the 2010 Australasian Aquaculture Conference 'Disease investigation in finfish - demystifying the diagnostic process' discussed the need at an industry level for an improvement in investigating fish health skills across the aquaculture industry.

Every state of Australia has an aquaculture industry which requires effective health investigation and disease management. Across Australia aquatic animal health training is being delivered to industry and future stakeholders by vocational trainers using units from the National Seafood Industry Package. Aquatic animal health training is also occurring on the farm informally by other industry professionals.

There is a need to bring together those delivering training, to allow them to update and improve their knowledge and practical skills to enable better delivery and ultimately better outcomes for skill development in farm fish health investigation and disease management to support Australia’s fishing and aquaculture industry.

Objectives

1. To enable vocational trainers and industry participants an opportunity to update and improve existing practical skills and knowledge in fish health managment.
2. To support the effective delivery of the current and future Seafood Industry Training Package (SFI04) health units SFIAQUA218A –Control pests, predators and disease, SFIAQUA312A – Oversee control of pests, predators and disease, SFIAQUA401B – Develop and implement a stock health program, SFIAQUA505B – Plan stock health management

People development program: 2011 Aquatic animal health training scheme- Nicholas Moody

Project number: 2009-315.11
Project Status:
Completed
Budget expenditure: $3,360.00
Principal Investigator: Nicholas J. Moody
Organisation: CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory
Project start/end date: 14 Jul 2011 - 30 Oct 2011
Contact:
FRDC

Need

A Current Priority in the 2011 FRDC AAHS R&D plan (6.2.3 Endemic and exotic aquatic animal disease diagnostics) is “Diagnostics for agents of national/international significance”.

The AAHL Fish Diseases Laboratory (AFDL) role involves detection/confirmation of exotic and newly emerging diseases (particularly those in Australia’s National List of Reportable Diseases of Aquatic Animal), index case confirmation and supporting national response capability.

Ideally, AFDL diagnostic assays are adopted from the OIE Manual of Diagnostic Tests for Aquatic Animals 2010 or ANZSDPs. Unfortunately, for some agents there are either multiple protocols in the OIE Chapter (e.g. ISAV, IHNV, VHSV), real-time PCR protocols for high-throughput screening are not in the OIE Chapter (e.g. VHSV, IHNV) or there is no OIE Chapter (e.g. NNV, IPNV). Where no assays are described, published literature is the only source of information. Due to a time lag between updating the OIE Chapters or publication of test protocols, it is not always possible to be confident that the most current protocols have been implemented. Published methods may not adequately describe the specificity of the tests (e.g. detection of different genotypes by ISAV and VHSV RT-qPCRs).

One way to ensure awareness of the latest developments in diagnostic protocols and to compare AFDL’s capability is through networks with overseas reference laboratories who routinely deal with agents that are exotic to Australia. Nick Moody’s attendance at the EAFP Conference in September will provide an opportunity to visit the EU Reference Laboratory for Fish Diseases in Denmark and the CEFAS Laboratory in the UK.

Objectives

1. Obtain knowledge of current test protocols and positive control strategies for detection of aquatic animal diseases in the European Union, both exotic and endemic to Australia.
2. Obtain knowledge of current methods for high-throughput molecular testing for aquatic animal diseases in the European Union.
Adoption
PROJECT NUMBER • 2002-651
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: whirling disease a disease strategy manual

Whirling disease is the disease of freshwater salmonid fish caused by the myxozoan parasite Myxobolus cerebralis. The parasite has never been detected in Australia, but is present in New Zealand and areas of North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. Whirling disease is a reportable disease in...
ORGANISATION:
Paul Hardy-Smith
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2013-004
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: the Neptune Project- a comprehensive database of Australian aquatic animal pathogens and diseases

Aquatic animal health experts from the Queensland Museum (QM) have been completing work on a parasite and disease database called Neptune. Work on Neptune has taken place at QM in Brisbane since May 2013, resulting in the completion of major improvements to the database. These will allow Neptune to...
ORGANISATION:
Queensland Museum
Adoption
People
Environment
PROJECT NUMBER • 2003-216
PROJECT STATUS:
COMPLETED

Aquatic Animal Health Subprogram: detection and management of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi) health issues

Since 1999, the kingfish (YTK, Seriola lalandi) aquaculture industry has been a significant investor in South Australia’s regional economy. Currently, the annual YTK production is 2,000 tonnes and is anticipated to approach 7,000 tonnes by 2008 with a retail value of $55 million. The...
ORGANISATION:
South Australian Marine Finfish Farmers Association Inc
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