• Emergency preparedness and contingency plans to aquatic animal disease emergencies 

      Bondad-Reantaso, Melba G. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      Emergency preparedness is the ability to respond effectively and in a timely fashion to aquatic animal disease emergencies (e.g. disease outbreaks, mass mortalities). It is a key element of a National Strategy on Aquatic ...
    • Emergency preparedness and response system in Indonesia 

      Hastuti, Mukti Sri; Desrina; Maskur (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The Competent Authority (CA) on aquatic animal health in Indonesia is the Directorate Aquaculture Area Development and Fish Health of the Directorate General of Aquaculture (DGA) under the Ministry of Marine Affairs. CA ...
    • Emergency preparedness and response systems for aquatic animal diseases in Malaysia 

      Chu, Kua Beng; Ling, Ong See; Hashim, Siti Hasshura; Hamdan, Mohd Hafiz (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The Department of Fisheries (DoF) Malaysia is the custodian of the Fisheries Act 1985, which serves as the main legislative source for subsidiary regulations, including aquaculture and fish health management. It has ...
    • Emergency response to emerging disease: AHPND in shrimp 

      Sritunyalucksana, Kallaya; Flegel, Timothy W.; Sithigorngul, Paisarn; Wangman, Pradit (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      Outbreaks of acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) have caused great economic losses to many shrimp producing countries in Asia since its first appearance in 2009. The causative agent was first reported in 2013 ...
    • Emergency response to emerging diseases: TiLV in tilapia 

      Senapin, Saengchan (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      Tilapia lake virus (TiLV) is a novel RNA virus resembling Orthomyxovirus. It has been recently re-classified to Tilapia tilapinevirus species, under Tilapinevirus genus, Amnoonviridae family (ICTV, 2018). Since the first ...
    • FAO TCP/INT/3501: Emergency preparedness and response systems capacity and performance self-assessment survey 

      Tendencia, Eleonor A.; de la Peña, Leobert D.; de la Cruz, Joesyl Marie V.; FAO (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The purpose of this survey is to obtain information on national capacity and the agencies mandated to implement emergency preparedness and response systems with respect to aquatic animal diseases. The results of this survey ...
    • Fish disease control in Japan 

      Miwa, Satoshi (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The regulatory authority responsible for the control of aquatic animal diseases in Japan is the Animal Products Safety Division, Food Safety and Consumer Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries ...
    • OIE international standards on aquatic animals 

      Wang, Jing (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) is the intergovernmental organisation responsible for improving animal health worldwide. It is recognised as a reference organisation by the World Trade Organization (WTO) to ...
    • Philippines: Aquatic emergency preparedness and response systems for transboundary diseases 

      Somga, Sonia S.; Somga, Joselito R.; Quiatchon, Gladys M.; Regidor, Simeona E. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) of the Department of Agriculture as the Competent Authority, develops and implements rules and regulations on aquatic animal health for the Philippines. It establishes ...
    • Risk analysis in aquaculture 

      Bondad-Reantaso, Melba G. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The information presented in this paper were taken from several key FAO documents. The objective is to continuously raise awareness about the concept of risk analysis and its application to the aquaculture sector. The paper ...
    • Transboundary aquatic animal diseases: History and impacts in ASEAN aquaculture 

      Leaño, Eduardo M. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      Aquaculture is one of the important sectors in the economy of most Asia-Pacific countries. However, majority of aquaculture farms are small-scale and most often lack the necessary facilities to comply with or are not well ...
    • Way forward 

      Bondad-Reantaso, Melba G. (Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2019)
      The overall objective of this technical consultation is to bring together the representatives of ASEAN Member States and technical experts to examine the status of aquatic emergency preparedness and response systems currently ...