Fish Health

Maintaining healthy stock is essential to profitable farming. Growing healthy farmed fish requires high quality, nutritious feed, maintaining reasonable stocking densities, ensuring good water quality, limiting sources of stress or outside threats such as plankton blooms and predators, acquiring and developing good quality, healthy fish stocks to start with. Good fish husbandry relies on vaccination, the judicious use of antibiotics, disease screening and vigilance in all aspects of caring for the fish.

• Management of Fish Health
  • Fish Health Advisory Committee
  • Fish Health Management Plans
  • Bio-Security Procedures for Fisheries Inspection of Marine Fish Farms
     
• Fish Health Program Activities
  • BCSFA Fish Health Database
    • Quarterly Reports
  • MAFF Fish Health Auditing & Surveillance Program
    • Reports
  • Fish Health Annual Report
     
• Current Issues
  • Antibiotics
  • IHN Virus
  • Sea Lice
    • Sea Lice Management Strategy 2004
    • Broughton Archipelago Sea Lice Monitoring 2003
    • BCSFA Sea Lice Monitoring Results
     

Links

• Animal Health Centre
• Salmon Aquaculture Review Links
• National Code on Introductions and Transfers of Aquatic Organisms

Updated:  August 12, 2004