Smart Aquaculture Biosecurity (SAB)
The Smart Aquaculture Biosecurity (SAB) project aims to assist countries to effectively implement biosecurity governance, systems and practices through the use of smart and digital tools.
News
SAB
08 November 2022
The Republic of Korea through the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is investing USD 1.2 million to strengthen shrimp aquaculture in Sri Lanka. The investment is part of a global project implemented by FAO in Sri [...more]
SAB
07 November 2022
8-10 November 2022
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO); the Ministry of Fisheries of Sri Lanka are jointly launching a Project Inception Workshop on Smart and Sustainable Aquaculture through Effective Biosecurity and Digital Technology.
Through an in-depth presentation [...more]
SAB
12 April 2021
A two-day hybrid meeting will bring together all aquaculture stakeholders in the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam to discuss how smart and sustainable aquaculture may contribute to achieve economic, environmental, and social sustainability and enhance biosecurity governance, systems and practices [...more]
SAB
18 December 2020
Biosecurity is a fundamental concept to prevent and control the occurrence and spread of infectious diseases in aquaculture systems. Fish disease limits successful aquaculture production, with lasting effects on socio-economic development. It can lead, among the others, to food shortage, [...more]
Resources
SAB
The FAO/MSU/WB First Multi-Stakeholder Consultation on a Progressive Management Pathway to Improve Aquaculture Biosecurity (PMP/AB) was held at the World Bank Headquarters, Washington, D.C., United States of America from 10 to 12 April 2018. The PMP/AB has the potential to [...more]
2019
Publications
SAB
This Shrimp infectious myonecrosis strategy manual provides key information for national policy-makers relevant to the development of contingency plans for countries, producers and other stakeholders with regard to outbreaks of infectious myonecrosis (IMN), a viral disease of farmed marine penaeid [...more]
2019
Publications
SAB
The authors briefly describe the efforts of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) between 2011 and 2017 in providing assistance to member countries in dealing with Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) of penaeid shrimp, through two [...more]
2018
Publications