Q: why doesn’t an octopus need back up?
A: because he has his arm-ie.
Farm biosecurity award for 2013 given to…
When many people think about farm biosecurity, they think about fences, foot baths… They might think about quarantine at the airport and so on. Keeping out foot-and-mouth disease, European house borers, insects and plants and fruits…
Who did this year’s Australian Farm Biosecurity Award go to? To an aquaculture operation! And in Tasmania!
Read more below –
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From: Dr. David Scarfe <DScarfe@avma.org>
Date: Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 7:53 PM
Subject: AquaVetMed e-News: Australian Aquaculture Operation receives 2013 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award
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October 1, 2013
Winner announced for 2013 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year
In a first for the Australian Farmer of the Year Awards, an aquaculture business has not only been chosen as a finalist in the 2013 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award, but has taken the title. The 2013 Biosecurity Farmer of the Year Award winners are Peter and Frances Bender, salmon and trout farmers from Hideaway Bay, Tasmania.
Originally cattle farmers, the Benders diversified into salmon in 1988. Twenty-five years later, the Benders have grown their business, Huon Aquaculture Company Pty, into a vertically integrated company which farms, processes and sells Atlantic salmon and rainbow trout products to domestic and international markets. Last year Huon Aquaculture implemented a whole of chain biosecurity plan based on a detailed risk assessment of the business. Born from the need to protect the company from the effects of devastating diseases such as salmon anaemia, the plan outlines a number of procedures and protocols designed to minimise the spread and impact of endemic and exotic diseases.
Peter and Frances’ message to fellow producers is simple: “Take biosecurity seriously—pathogens have no respect for spin.”
The other award finalists, sheep producers Richard and Jacquie Halliday from South Australia and Shelley and Chris Cocker from Tasmania demonstrated excellent on-farm biosecurity when their flocks were threatened with ovine Johne’s disease (OJD). Their swift and appropriate actions were crucial to managing the disease, helping to reduce their losses and mitigate the potential broader impacts to clients and neighbouring producers.
Learn more about Farm Biosecurity at www.farmbiosecurity.com.au.
Source: Animal Health Australia (http://tinyurl.com/mfnz6t7).
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Neptune webinar: Integrated Management for Fluke Infections in Fish – presented by Dr Marty Deveney.
Dr Marty Deveney will discuss Integrated Management for Fluke Infections in Fish, next week. I wonder if there might be something useful for ornamental fish, food fish culture and public aquaria.
It’s free to attend and all you need is a computer with internet connection and a phone line.
Details below.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013
1:30 PM – 2:30 PM Brisbane, Australia (AEST) (Check time and date in your location here)
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Phone Number: 1800 804 723 (check free call phone number for your country/city by clicking here)
Participant passcode: 389 131 7648
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Dr Marissa McNamara
Neptune Project Manager
Interesting facts about Anchor worm (Lernaea), the fish parasite – video.
Some interesting things I discovered about the lifecycle of this crustacean fish parasite, talking to a second year PhD student (Mikayla McCredden) who is studying this bug.
Check out the video of the bug sucking on the goldfish through a dissecting microscope (sorry poor videography) and listen in on our conversation that starts with, "So, what can you tell me about Lernaea?"
Check it out on my youtube channel by clicking here – http://youtu.be/F3AU3r5tFH0
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Dr Richmond Loh DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology) Murdoch, MANZCVS (Aquatics & Pathobiology), CertAqV.
Veterinarian | Adjunct Lecturer Murdoch University | President-elect WAVMA |
Secretary Aquatic Animal Health Chapter – ANZCVS.
The Fish Vet, Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA.
Mobile Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services for fish and other aquatic creatures.
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The Fish Vet’s Albatross Island adventure.
Check out my story as a fresh new veterinary graduate over a decade ago when I embarked on an adventure to help with research into the demise of albatrosses.
The article with pictures (taken on a Kodachrome SLR camera!) can be found on pages 72-76 at this link –
Fish Joke for Monday-itis: Laughter.
Q: why do squid make children laugh?
A: Because they always have ten tickles!
Congratulations to Dr Kathy Larson who won the T-shirt design choice! Veterinarians treat more than one SPECIES🐱🐶🐴🐄🐏🐷…
Earlier last month, we ran a T-shirt design competition to raise awareness about the work aquatic veterinarians do.
The theme was along these lines:
Veterinarians treat more than one SPECIES🐱🐶🐴🐄🐏🐷.
Aquatic veterinarians treat more than one PHYLA 🐟🐬🐢🐌🐸🐧🐊♋️🍤.
I employed the services of cloud sourcing for the design and created a poll to help choose the winning design. Those who voted went into the draw to win one of the products available through The Fish Vet’s online store.
Dr Kathy Larson, of Ocean Park aquarium in Hong Kong, is the lucky winner of a bottle of TheFishVet’s Gel Powder.
We are now in the next phase of organising the logistics for production and distribution of the T-shirts. Stay tuned for more news on its progress.
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Veterinary Medicine for fish.
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Salt water bacteria infects 31 in Florida, kills 10!
Read More here – http://mobile.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/bacteria-in-salt-water-infects-31-in-florida/story-fneuzlbd-1226738704576
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Secretary Aquatic Animal Health Chapter – ANZCVS.
The Fish Vet, Perth, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA. Mobile Veterinary Medical & Diagnostic Services for fish and other aquatic creatures.
http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 (0)421 822 383
Looking for more books? Check out this site.
Fish internal anatomy diagram – it’s what’s inside that counts!
See how a fish has much the same organs as many other animals!
A good simplified internal anatomy diagram can be found at this link – http://marinewaters.fish.wa.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/Internal-anatomy-labels-and-information.pdf
Class action brought against the Vic DPI over the handling of abalone disease outbreak.
An aquatic disease makes headlines in the Sydney Morning Herald.
This disease, abalone viral ganglioneuritis (AVG), also shows the importance of retaining essential laboratory skills like histopathology and the transmission electron microscopy which were pivotal in the investigation of this new disease. We need to be very cautious of throwing all our money into “blind” molecular techniques.