Q: A German hotel for cetaceans…
A: Adolph Inn.
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Fish job available – Tasmania.
Fish Health Manager/Fish Veterinarian Position
Tassal Group Limited
Location: Margate, Tasmania, Australia
Applications close 5 pm Monday, 7 August 2017
A dynamic opportunity exists with Australia’s leading salmon and seafood company, Tassal Group Limited (TGR), as Australia’s leading salmon and seafood company. We provide a professional and highly rewarding environment for our team of over 1,200, and pride ourselves on our industry leadership position as we strive for excellence across our four critical factors of success (4P’s) – Our People, Our Planet, Our Product and Our Performance.
If you want to make a change within the aquaculture industry, then this role is your opportunity to identify and drive it. Reporting to the Head of Aquaculture, you will be responsible for achieving strategic objectives in respect to fish health including health strategy, management, research, and welfare certifications. Applicants need to be a dynamic and driven individual, with a “can-do” attitude to will bring a level of excitement to the team. We are looking for results that are driven from a mix of experience, new ideas, and new ways of maximising returns based on leading edge fish health initiatives. A veterinarian with demonstrated fish health experience, and strong personnel and project leadership, would be ideal. The key aspects we are looking for is an outcome driven, agile thinker who is capable of defining our fish health direction. In this position, you will be able to recognise opportunities through strong technical experience, and be capable of turning your technical ability into commercial reality.
Interested? – If so, for a confidential discussion, please contact Angela Quinn (HR Manager) on +61 408 338 391, or apply now at http://tinyurl.com/ycb8low.
For additional information about Tassal Tasmanian Salmon, go to http://www.tassal.com.au/working-at-tassal/
Regards,
Dave
A. David Scarfe PhD, DVM, MRSSAf, CertAqV
Aquatic Veterinary Associates International, LLC
365 Monarch Birch Ct., Bartlett, IL 60103, USA
+1 (847) 650-4628 or (International) +1 (515) 203-7972
dscarfe@ameritech.net or adscarfe@gmail.com
Consider presenting or attending the 2017 WAVMA Conference and Annual General Meeting 2017 in Tirgu Mures, Romania (12-14 September)
Cutting-edge eDNA for point-of-care early fish disease prediction: because prevention is better than cure.
Imagine this: a simple water test and you’re able to make a diagnosis of Chilodonella or white spot disease. And all even before fish show signs of illness!
Check out the cutting-edge technology that The Fish Vet’s team member is working on.
eDNA stands for environmental deoxyribose nucleic acid or DNA found in the environment (e.g. water, soil, saliva, faeces, etc).
The initial purpose of eDNA methodology is for aquaculturists to avoid serious losses (deaths, inappetance, poor growth, increased production time, disease spread, cost of medicines, cost of diagnostics, delayed harvest, gaps in production, replacement costs, loss of breed lines, etc.) due to disease outbreaks, for the better health and welfare of their fish stocks.
I’d imagine that this will eventually be within the reach of aquarium hobbyists too. So there will be no more guess work for DIY fish doctors, to get the right diagnosis, for the right treatment.
Read more about it here – https://thefishsite.com/articles/environmental-dna-sampling-shows-huge-potential-for-aquaculture
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | TOWNSVILLE | BRIBIE ISLAND.
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.
Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
Web: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383
Fish Joke for Monday-itis: it was this big!
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I’m a fish hobbyist, and there are no fish vets in my area. Can your Fish Vetting books and DVD be used for arowana fish?
I recently received a question from Indonesia, and we receive many similar questions also from India, USA and Europe.
Fish Vetting Essentials is a generalist book with a focus on water quality and fish diseases, and a section on simple treatment protocols.
Fish Vetting Medicines is a more specialised book on the medicines available with dose rates for the treatment of fish diseases. It is set out like a dictionary of drugs.
Fish Vetting Techniques and Practical Tips DVD demonstrates diagnostic and therapeutic techniques used by aquatic animal health professionals. The highlights are the videos of microscopic parasites, treatments and necropsy procedures.
These resources are useful for veterinarians and fish owners to use together.
Resources are available from – http://thefishvet.com.au/shop/shopping.html
To find an aquatic veterinarian in your area, use this directory – https://www.aquavetmed.info/
Watch a TheFishVet at work – http://tinyurl.com/thefishdoctor
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | TOWNSVILLE | BRIBIE ISLAND.
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.
Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
Web: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383
Mail: PO Box 5164, East Victoria Park, WA 6981, Australia.
Frog mucus – a potential cure for flu.
Remember the princess who kissed a frog? Well, looks like she will never catch the flu!
There is a peptide named urumin that binds to haemagglutinin, which is on the influenza (flu) virus, destabilising and killing the virus.
Imagine taking a spoonful of frog mucus syrup, to cure your winter flu!
Yummy!
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | TOWNSVILLE | BRIBIE ISLAND.
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.
Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
Web: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383
Mail: PO Box 5164, East Victoria Park, WA 6981, Australia.
The aftermath of the Australian WSSV. What now for prawn farmers?
Some of the standard mitigation strategies have been deployed, but what are the risks, and could we consider other strategies?
For example, commercial and recreational fishers have been discouraged to operate in the affected areas. Without the fishing pressures, crustacean numbers may rise, and the higher numbers of animals susceptible in the region could help sustain the disease. Is it possible to encourage over-fishing and no-size limit, to help reduce populations such that the disease cannot spread?
Surveillance is ongoing in the Logan River, through to Moreton Bay and the Brisbane River to determine the scale of the disease spread in the marine environment. Could these equipment and vessels used by personnel help spread the disease further?
Could they use the new technology called eDNA to help with their surveillance work – whereby water samples are taken for testing, instead of needing to catch the prawn/crab/polychaete to do the test.
There is no formal cost sharing arrangement in place among the Commonwealth and State Governments, or with industry (as there is with more established terrestrial farmed animals). This is space for development. So in the meantime, if a prawn farmer suspects WSSV, will they have the incentive to report it, or go into emergency harvest to salvage their investment? Though, the disincentive is that it would ve illegal not to report a notifiable disease to authorities.
I envisage that the 7 or more affected prawn farms would be looking towards culture of non-susceptible species. Perhaps barramundi, silver perch, cobia, grouper, goldfish, and dare I say, carp and tilapia! Algae could also be a thing. And then potentially return to farming prawns in the future.
Those businesses that choose to be among the first to restart prawn farming in the area earliest, risk generating a large biomass of susceptible animals that could potentially amplify what virus is there, and set back the eradication attempt.
With any disease, especially waterborne-viral diseases, it is very difficult to eradicate from a system; especially with prawn farming being a semi-open farming system. At the end of the day, Australia may need to accept that the White spot syndrome virus is endemic. Prawn farming practices will have to change. This means that prawn farmers will need to turn to people with such disease experience, to share their know-how on shrimp farming.
We have a naturalised Australian team member, who trained as a veterinarian in Brazil, worked in the largest prawn hatchery in Brazil (Aquatec), completed a Masters on prawn diseases caused by intracellular bacteria (NHPB), and a PhD on eDNA technology. The best thing is that our team member is based close to Brisbane, where all the WSSV activity is at.
Call us now, on how we can give your prawn farm the edge!
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Dr Richmond Loh DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics & Pathobiology), CertAqV, CMAVA, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist
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Fish Joke for Monday-itis: sodium
With thanks to Yancey.
And then it got corrected by a chemist, stating sodium is not an atom, but an element.
“Technically incorrect!! And you don’t want to lose credibility right?!”
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The most balanced article on Australia’s National Carp Control Program (NCCP) – KHV or not…
“The idea of biocontrol is controversial, with a chequered history in Australia. On [the] NCCP Facebook page, lively comments range from ‘Bring on the virus!’ to ‘This is insane.’..
Numerous approaches have been attempted to control carp numbers since their first explosion in the ’70s. But over that time, carp populations have trebled. Carp are recognised as a significant pest species, both in Australia and internationally.”
What I really want to know is…
1. What triggered their population explosion in the 1970’s? Carp had been introduced by the government many decades earlier.
2. Carp had been farmed for centuries. How did this virus only just appear on the scene in the last 15-20 years?
3. As part of NCCP’s stakeholder consultation process, they’ve set-up a Facebook page. Why isn’t the Facebook link working anymore? Where has the page gone?
Read more –
The deadline for a decision is by the end of 2018.
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | TOWNSVILLE | BRIBIE ISLAND.
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.
Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
Web: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383
Mail: PO Box 5164, East Victoria Park, WA 6981, Australia.
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Yours sincerely,
Dr Richmond Loh
DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology), MANZCVS (Aquatics& Pathobiology), CertAqV, NATA Signatory.
Aquatic Veterinarian & Veterinary Pathologist.
PERTH | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | TOWNSVILLE | BRIBIE ISLAND.
THE FISH VET – AUSTRALIA.
Aquatic Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services.
Web: http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 421 822 383
Mail: PO Box 5164, East Victoria Park, WA 6981, Australia.