Integrated parasite management: path to sustainable control of fishborne trematodes in aquaculture

TY - JOUR

T1 - Integrated parasite management

T2 - path to sustainable control of fishborne trematodes in aquaculture

AU - Clausen, Jesper Hedegaard

AU - Madsen, Henry

AU - Van, Phan Thi

AU - Dalsgaard, Anders

AU - Murrell, Kenneth Darwin

PY - 2015/1/1

Y1 - 2015/1/1

N2 - Fishborne zoonotic trematodes (FZT) are an emerging problem and there is now a consensus that, in addition to wild-caught fish, fish produced in aquaculture present a major food safety risk, especially in Southeast Asia where aquaculture is important economically. Current control programs target communities at risk through mass drug administration. However, we argue that treatment alone will not reduce the risk from eating infected fish and that sustainable effective control must adopt an integrated FZT control approach based on education, infrastructure improvements, and management practices that target critical control points in the aquaculture production cycle identified from a thorough understanding of FZT and host biology and epidemiology. We present recommendations for an integrated parasite management (IPM) program for aquaculture farms.

AB - Fishborne zoonotic trematodes (FZT) are an emerging problem and there is now a consensus that, in addition to wild-caught fish, fish produced in aquaculture present a major food safety risk, especially in Southeast Asia where aquaculture is important economically. Current control programs target communities at risk through mass drug administration. However, we argue that treatment alone will not reduce the risk from eating infected fish and that sustainable effective control must adopt an integrated FZT control approach based on education, infrastructure improvements, and management practices that target critical control points in the aquaculture production cycle identified from a thorough understanding of FZT and host biology and epidemiology. We present recommendations for an integrated parasite management (IPM) program for aquaculture farms.

KW - Aquaculture

KW - Control

KW - Fish

KW - Fishborne

KW - Parasites

KW - Prevention

U2 - 10.1016/j.pt.2014.10.005

DO - 10.1016/j.pt.2014.10.005

M3 - Journal article

C2 - 25466608

AN - SCOPUS:84920736105

SN - 1471-4922

VL - 31

SP - 8

EP - 15

JO - Trends in Parasitology

JF - Trends in Parasitology

IS - 1

ER -