Finfish in aquaculture and their diseases – A retrospective view on the European Community.

• Main Authors: E. Ariel, N. J. Olesen, Århus N
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.457.1489; http://eafp.squarespace.com/bulletin-archive/2002-volume-22/issue-2/22_072.pdf

Results from annual surveys since 1995, in the European Union (EU) and some neighbouring states on the epidemiological situation of fish diseases listed in Council Directive 91/67/EEC Annex A, and on other emerging fish diseases, forms the basis of this paper. The production of cultured finfish is expanding in EU. From 1995 to 2000 total aquaculture production increased 60 % to approximately 520 000 tonnes in 2000. The traditional emphasis on rainbow trout (Oncorhyncus mykiss) and salmon (Salmo salar) production shifted during those years to include other species – of particular mention are seabream (Sparus aurata) and seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) in the rapidly growing Mediterranean aquaculture industry. ISA entered the Community in 1998, but appears to have departed again after prompt implementation of control measures given in Council Directive 93/53/EEC, thus regaining its status as an exotic disease in EU. The ongoing efforts of surveillance for notifiable fish diseases on list II, and the associated ensuing trade regulations between approved and non-approved zones have in most cases successfully contained those diseases. The trend is for an increasing number of zones and countries to move towards approval for freedom of notifiable diseases.