BCA: development of generic contingency plans for disease emergencies of aquatic animals

Funding Activity

Website
https://www.frdc.com.au/project/1997-21480

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Development of contingency plans for significant aquatic animal diseases is a critical first step in the management of disease outbreaks. In this respect, aquatic animal health policy development is lagging behind terrestrial animal health policy by approximately 20 years.

At the Melbourne workshops, all sectors of the fishing industry strongly supported the need for a national approach to aquatic animal disease control issues and identified the writing of contingency plans for disease incursions to be an important task. Also they noted there was a need to build on the unanimous support for this contingency planning process and there was an expectation that some generic, sectoral plans could be developed very rapidly.

Objectives:
1. Write four generic (enclosed water; open freshwater; net/open culture marine; open marine) contingency planning manuals for the occurence of significant diseases in aquatic animals to draft form.
2. Following consultation with industry, State government and Commonwealth government representatives, produce four final generic contingency planning manuals.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-07-1997

End Date: 30-04-1998

Funding Scheme: Funding Scheme not available

Funder: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation

Research Topics

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Other Keywords

Biosecurity | Disease | Fisheries Management | Publication | Risk reduction

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