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Dr Starling from Aqueterinary Services from the US shared with me this video.

Link to CNN video.

But having visited Disney’s Hollywood, Magic Kingdom and EPCOT recently, there’s something to be said about having an imagination. I still like to hope that there could be such a thing as a mermaid. What about you?

This would have to be one of the safest, most reliable fish anaesthetic available. Hope it’ll become more freely available worldwide.

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From: “Dr. David Scarfe”
Date: 29 May 2013 10:48:03 EDT
Subject: AquaVetMed e-News: Multi-country approval for fish anaesthetic, Tricaine Pharmaq

May 29, 2013
Marketing authorization for fish anaesthetic, Tricaine Pharmaq, in seven different countries

Press Release – In the past few months PHARMAQ has received national marketing authorisations for Tricaine Pharmaq for the United Kingdom, Ireland, Norway, Iceland, The Faroe Islands, Spain and Italy.

“Appropriate anaesthesia can provide benefits for a wide range of fish handling operations, helping to safeguard fish welfare and also improving operator safety during processes such as vaccination”, says Dr. Ben North, Managing Director of PHARMAQ Ltd.

Tricaine Pharmaq will replace the former product PHARMAQ MS 222, a compound well known to the industry and which held marketing authorisations in the UK and Ireland for many years. The formulation of the product remains the same (100% active tricaine methanesulphonate) and is available by prescription. Tricaine Pharmaq is readily soluble in water, making it safe and easy to use, with no requirement for solvents. Tricaine Pharmaq can benefit all sectors of the aquatic industry, from tranquilisation of ornamental fish during transport, through to full anaesthesia for surgical procedures, as well as anaesthesia of food fish at vaccination and egg collection from brood fish.

PHARMAQ UK will be the distribution centre for all of the different markets. Tricaine Pharmaq will be available in four different pack sizes from 25 g to 1000 g, all with separate national labels and inserts. “This is a great opportunity for PHARMAQ to introduce an established, safe and efficacious anaesthetic to support our customers in more of the markets where our fish vaccines are already being used”, added Dr. North

For further information, please contact:
Ben North Managing Director, PHARMAQ Ltd
Email ben.north@pharmaq.no
Tel: +44(0) 1425 651927
Mobile +44(0) 7900 195046

[For more information on this and other Pharmaq products, see http://www.pharmaq.no. ADS-Mod.]
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From: Hawaii Aqua
Date: 29 May 2013 5:48:44 EDT
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: Fwd: June 30 webinar on airlift water pump

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From: Ronald Weidenbach
Date: Tue, May 28, 2013 at 11:48 AM
Subject: HAAA Member News to Use: June 30 webinar on airlift water pump
To: Hawaii Aqua

Dear HAAA members,

The eXtension Freshwater Aquaculture Community of Practice (CoP) will
be presenting a webinar on aquaponics. Those that have a background in
aquaponics, please feel free to join the session and discussion.

The title of the webinar is:

Aquaponics: Paradigm Shift with Airlift

Presented by: Tetsuzan Benny Ron
May 30th, 2013 at 4PM Eastern/3PM Central

This will be a 1-hour presentation on aquaponics with a question and
answer session.

With thoughtful design, appropriate maintenance, and effective
management, airlift pumps may allow us to transfer water through an
aquaponics system in a more efficient way compared to that of water
pumps. Understanding the disadvantages and learning how easy it is to
construct an airlift pump can help many to reduce their energy
expenses while avoiding the risk and maintenance resulted from having
electrical pumps in the water.

To connect to the webinar, follow the link below:

https://connect.extension.iastate.edu/freshwater

For more information, please contact Vanessa Weldon at:vmaxwell24@gmail.com

https://learn.extension.org/events/1064

Q: How do you describe the behaviour/emotion of an irritable shellfish?

A: Crabby.

By yours truly.

Will this inspire you to look after our aquatic environment even more?
https://www.facebook.com/thefishvetdrloh/photos_albums

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Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology) Murdoch, MANZCVS (Aquatics & Pathobiology).
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.
http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 (0)421 822 383

Looking for more books? Check out this site.

Last week, I was lucky enough to meet with Dr Roy Yanong (pictured with me below), a veterinarian working on the extension aspect of fish health through the University of Florida. We discussed veterinary issues facing the tropical freshwater and marine fish ornamental industries and also the need for protecting and where damaged, rehabilitating the aquatic environment. We also visited the largest freshwater ornamental fish farm in the US (5D) and a couple of others.

They concluded that: “Caring for health and welfare of fish is a critical success factor for aquaculture”

Read more below.

Begin forwarded message:

From: “Dr. David Scarfe”
Date: 31 May 2013 7:05:38 EDT
Subject: AquaVetMed e-News: Outcomes of FVE Fish Health & Welfare Conference

May 31, 2013
FVE Seminar Conclusions: “Caring for health and welfare of fish: A critical success factor for aquaculture”

Brussels – Emphasized at this 16-17 May 2013 conference: “Fish, as other food producing animals, get sick, their welfare can be compromised and the food they produce has to be healthy. Veterinarians, through education and experience, have a holistic view on how health, welfare and the environment interlinks and therefore have a key role to play within aquaculture“ suggested FVE President Dr. Christophe Buhot at the conference the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe organized on aquaculture. “Vets care for people and animals, including fish. It is essential to ensure that sufficient veterinary expertise is available to the aquaculture sector.”

The event attracted more than 150 people from European Institutions, National Authorities, veterinarians, fish producers, scientists and many other stakeholders as well. This large number of participants underlined the enormous interest our society takes in aquaculture, which is a fast growing sector. The EU is not self-sufficient in fish products and requires imports from third countries. There is a significant potential in EU for increasing production in aquaculture, both in terms of capacity and exploitation of new species. This growth should be encouraged and supported at national and EU levels.

The large diversity of fish species being kept, each with their own specific needs, should be taken into consideration when regulating the sector. Close collaboration between the aquaculture industry and the veterinary profession should be ensured, in order to guarantee optimal health management of fish farms at all stages of production and to put in place sustainable and viable solutions for the future. Lack of availability of veterinary medicines specific to fish is a problem in the EU. The medicines legislation review should try to ensure incentives to encourage the development of these medicines.

FVE organized this conference in association with the Irish Presidency of the Council and the support of European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Consumers and Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries. The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe (FVE) is an umbrella organisation of 44 veterinary organisations from 38 European countries, representing a total of around 200 000 veterinarians.
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[Conference presentation, and FVE conclusions and recommendation for future action are accessible at http://www.fve.org/news/presentations.php. ADS-Mod.]
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AquaVetMed e-News provides information to veterinary and veterinary-allied subscribers concerning aquatic animal medicine, health, welfare, public health and seafood safety, obtained from a variety of sources (largely AquaVetMed subscribers). While provided by the American Veterinary Medical Association’s, Aquatic Veterinary Medicine Committee and are for public distribution, they do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the AVMA or the veterinary profession. See the AVMA Terms of Use (http://tinyurl.com/29h2rf) for further information.

If e-News information is used elsewhere please acknowledge AquaVetMed as the source. Encourage individuals to subscribe rather than distribute through list serves.

Messages may contain attachments that will have been scanned for known viruses.

Subscription and Contributions: Interested veterinarians and veterinary-allied professionals can subscribe, unsubscribe, or contribute pertinent news or information, by sending a message with “For AquaVetMed -” and the topic in the subject line, to dscarfe@avma.org.

Note: Undelivered e-mails will not be resent; Subscribers will be deleted from the list after repeated undelivered or bounced messages and will have to re-subscribe.

Visit our website: http://www.avma.org

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There is this saying among the aquaponics fraternity,”No soil, no toil.” Find out for yourself whether this is true.

The conference website with the presentations from the recent conference on Aquaponics in Hawaii is now available to download from this site – http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/sustainag/workshop/Aquaponics-May2013.html

Can you spot The Fish Vet in the crowd?

Dear SeaVet & AquaVet buddies,
Going through post-graduate courses like you’ve been undertaking, you may have gathered that there is still a lot of unknowns, but at the same time, there are a lot of things that are known that have yet to be published.

Going forward, those who work in this newish field of aquatic veterinary medicine may be interested in being in the know; and may wish to create a wider network with other veterinarians and students with similar interests globally.

Some of the strengths of the World Aquatic Veterinary Medical Association (WAVMA) include the active mailing list where no question is too simple, and no question is too complex. You’ll be pleasantly surprised with all the practical advice given by members through their responses. You’ll have access to the "hall of fame" or the "gurus" of fish health. You’ll also receive quarterly publications right to your email inbox with important news, events and information. For examples of some of the publications, follow this link – http://www.wavma.org/Publications

Those of you who are about the graduate over the next few days/weeks, might even be lucky enough to sneak in and join at the student rates!

Don’t delay any longer and join now by following this link – http://www.wavma.org/Become-a-member

Follow me on: Facebook "Fin Page" – YouTube – Blog – Linkedin – Twitter

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Yours sincerely,

Dr Richmond Loh DipProjMgt, BSc, BVMS, MPhil (Pathology) Murdoch, MANZCVS (Aquatics & Pathobiology).
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.
http://www.thefishvet.com.au
Ph: +61 (0)421 822 383

Not to be missed, these are an excellent way to learn about fish diseases from exactly where you are!

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From: <Joanne.Slater@csiro.au>
Date: Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 7:13 AM
Subject: Neptune webinar invitation
To: Joanne.Slater@csiro.au