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FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Circulars: Disease Strategy Manuals
The Fish-Vet Dialogue: Improving communication and collaboration in aquatic organism health management
2024

Tilapia Lake Virus Disease Strategy Manual
2021

Shrimp Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease Strategy Manual
2020

Shrimp Infectious Myonecrosis Strategy Manual
2019

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Reports
Outputs and Activities of FAO Project FMM/RAS/298/MUL on Antimicrobial Resistance in Fisheries and Summary of FAO’s recent work on Antimicrobial Resistance in Aquaculture
2020

Progress Towards Development of the Progressive Management Pathway for improving Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB): Highlights of 2019 activities
2020

Report of the Second Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on the Progressive Management Pathway for Improving Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB)
2019

Report of the Progressive Management Pathway for Improving Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB): First Technical Working Group Meeting
2019

Report of the FAO Expert Working Group Meeting “Scoping Exercise to Increase the Understanding of Risks of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Aquaculture
2018

Report of the FAO/MSU/WB First Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on a Progressive Management Pathway to Improve Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB)
2018

Development of a Regional Aquatic Biosecurity Strategy for the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
2018

Strengthening biosecurity capacity of Palau – FAO Project TCP/PL/3601/C1
2018

FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Papers
Better Management Practices for Carp Culture in Central and Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia
2011

Measuring the Contribution of Small-Scale Aquaculture
2009

Primary Aquatic Animal Health Care in Rural, Small-Scale, Aquaculture Development
2002

Asia Diagnostic Guide to Aquatic Animal Diseases
2001

Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries Technical Guidelines
Aquaculture Development                                                                           8. Recommendations for prudent and responsible use of veterinary medicines in aquaculture
2019

Aquaculture Development                                                                            2. Health management for responsible movement of live aquatic animals
2007

FAO Non-serial Publications
What you need to know about                                                                  EPIZOOTIC ULCERATIVE SYNDROME (EUS)                                                An extension brochure for Africa
2020

TILAPIA LAKE VIRUS                                                                                Expert Knowledge Elicitation (EKE) risk assessment
2018

Report of the International Emergency Fish Disease Investigation Mission on a Suspected Outbreak of Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS)  in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2015

Report of the International Emergency Disease Investigation Task Force on a Serious Finfish Disease in Southern Africa
2009

What you need to know about                                                            EPIZOOTIC ULCERATIVE SYNDROME (EUS)                                                An extension brochure for Africa
2009

Publications on Risk Analysis (FAO and non-FAO)
Risk Analysis in Aquaculture
2019

Risk Analysis for Movements of Live Aquatic Animals
2012

Understanding and Applying Risk Analysis in Aquaculture                        A manual for decision-makers
2009

A Risk Analysis Framework for Aquatic Animal Health Management in Marine Stocking Programmes
2006

Pathogen and ecological risk analysis for the introduction of blue shrimp, Litopenaeus stylirostris, from Brunei Darussalam to Fiji
2005

Pathogen and Ecological Risk Analysis for the Introduction of Giant River Prawn, Macrobrachium Rosenbergii, from Fiji to Cook Islands
2004

Manual on Risk Analysis for the Safe Movement of Aquatic Animals (FWG/01/2002)
2002

Capacity and Awareness Building on Import Risk Analysis (Ira) for Aquatic Animal (FWG/01/2002)
2002

 

Peer-review journals
Review of Alternatives to Antibiotic use in Aquaculture
2023

A 12-point checklist for Surveillance of Diseases of Aquatic Organisms: a novel approach to assist multidisciplinary teams in developing countries
2021

Roll-out of the Global Burden of Animal Diseases programme
2021

Emergency Preparedness and Contingency Plans to Aquatic Animal Disease Emergencies
2021

Complexities Involved in Source Attribution of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Found in Aquaculture Products
2020

Viewpoint: SARS-CoV-2 (The Cause of COVID-19 in Humans) is not known to infect Aquatic Food Animals nor contaminate their products
2020

Guidance in Development of Aquaculture Component of a National Action Plan on Antimicrobial Resistance
2020

Facts, Truths and Myths about SPF Shrimp in Aquaculture
2020

Impacts of Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease on Commercial Shrimp Aquaculture
2019

Field Study on Transmission of Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Syndrome (AHPNS) in Infected Ponds
2018

Identification and Characterization of Vibrio Bacteria Isolated from Shrimp Infected with Early Mortality Syndrome/acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Syndrome (EMS/AHPNS) in Viet Nam
2018

FAO Technical Assistance Efforts to Deal with Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) of Cultured Shrimp
2018

Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) of Penaeid shrimps: Global perspective
2016

Reducing Disease Risk in Aquaculture
2014

Improving biosecurity: a necessity for aquaculture sustainability
2012

Field Observations of Fish Species Susceptible to Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome in the Zambezi River basin in Sesheke District of Zambia
2011

International Trade in Aquatic Animals and Aquatic Animal Health: What Lessons Have We Learned So Far in Managing the Risks?
2009

The FAO/NACA Asia Regional Technical Guidelines on Health Management for the Responsible Movement of Live Aquatic Animals: lessons learned from their development and implementation
2008

Meeting the future demand for Aquatic Food through Aquaculture: The role of aquatic animal health
2008

Managing the Koi Herpesvirus Disease Outbreak in Indonesia and the Lessons Learned
2007

Disease and Health Management in Asian Aquaculture
2005

Outcomes of a Short Expert Consultation on Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS): Re-examination of Causal Factors, Case Definition and Nomenclature
2005