Health Management in Aquaculture

Lecture Notes, Study Materials and Important questions answers

Subject : Health Management in Aquaculture

Disease development
1. Disease development - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer (click
here)
2. How Disease Develops - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer
(click here)
3. Disease Diagnosis - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer (click
here)

Viral diseases
1. Characteristics of Virus - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer
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2. Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS) - Viral Infections In Fish - Answer
(click here)
3. Channel Catfish Virus Disease (CCVD) - Viral Infections In Fish -
Answer (click here)
4. Grass Carp Hemorrhagic Disease - Viral Infections In Fish - Answer (click
here)
5. Spinning Tilapia (ST) - Viral Infections In Fish - Answer (click here)
6. Viral Nervous Necrosis (VNN) - Viral Infections In Fish - Answer (click
here)
7. Lymphocystis Disease - Viral Infections In Fish - Answer (click here)
8. Grouper Iridovirus of Taiwan Disease (TGIV) - Viral Infections In Fish -
Answer (click here)
9. Sleepy Grouper Disease (SGD) - Viral Infections In Fish - Answer (click
here)
10. White Spot Syndrome Virus (WSSV) Disease - Viral Infections in
Penaeid Shrimps - Answer (click here)
11. Yellow Head Virus (YHV) Disease - Viral Infections in Penaeid
Shrimps - Answer (click here)
12. Monodon Baculovirus (MBV) Disease - Viral Infections in Penaeid
 Shrimps - Answer (click here)
13. Infectious Hypodermal and Hematopoietic Virus (IHHNV) Disease -
Viral Infections in Penaeid Shrimps - Answer (click here)
14. Hepatopancreatic Parvo-like Virus (HPV) Disease - Viral Infections in
Penaeid Shrimps - Answer (click here)
15. Prevention of Viral Infections in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)

Bacterial diseases
1. Bacterial diseases - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer (click
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2. What are Bacteria? - Answer (click here)
3. Identifying the real cause of a disease; Koch’s Postulates - Answer (click
here)
4. Columnaris Disease - Bacterial Diseases of Fish - Answer (click here)
5. Edwardsiella Septicaemia or Edwardsiellosis - Bacterial Diseases of Fish
- Answer (click here)
6. Motile Aeromonad Septicemia - Bacterial Diseases of Fish - Answer (click
here)
7. Pseudomonad Septicemia or Red Spot Disease - Bacterial Diseases of
Fish - Answer (click here)
8. Streptococcal Infection - Bacterial Diseases of Fish - Answer (click here)
9. Mycobacteriosis or Piscine Tuberculosis - Bacterial Diseases of Fish -
Answer (click here)
10. Filamentous Bacterial Disease - Bacterial Diseases of Crustaceans -
Answer (click here)
11. Cuticular or Subcuticular Localized Infections - Bacterial Diseases of
Crustaceans - Answer (click here)
12. Luminous Bacterial Disease - Internal or Systemic Infections of
Crustaceans - Answer (click here)
13. Non-luminous Vibrios Bacterial Disease - Internal or Systemic
Infections of Crustaceans - Answer (click here)

Fungal diseases
1. Fungal diseases - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
2. What are Fungi? - Answer (click here)
3. Saprolegniosis (Saprolegniasis) - Fungal Diseases of Fish - Answer (click
here)
4. Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome (EUS) - Fungal Diseases of Fish - Answer
(click here)
5. Branchiomycosis (Gill Rot) - Fungal Diseases of Fish - Answer (click here)
 6. Ichthyophoniasis (Ichthyosporidiosis) - Fungal Diseases of Fish - Answer
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7. Larval Mycosis - Fungal Diseases of Crustaceans - Answer (click here)
8. Black Gill Disease (Fusarium Disease) - Fungal Diseases of Crustaceans
- Answer (click here)
9. Aflatoxicosis (Red Disease) - Fungal Diseases of Crustaceans - Answer
(click here)

Parasitic diseases and pests

1. Parasitic diseases and pests - Health Management in Aquaculture -
Answer (click here)
2. Protozoan Infestations: Ciliates, Flagellates, Myxosporeans - Fish
Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer (click here)
3. Monogenean Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer
(click here)
4. Digenean Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer (click
here)
5. Cestode Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer (click
here)
6. Nematode Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer (click
here)
7. Acanthocephalan Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites -
Answer (click here)
8. Crustacean Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer
(click here)
9. Marine Leech Infestations - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer
(click here)
10. Mollusc Infestation - Fish Diseases Caused by Parasites - Answer (click
here)
11. Protozoan Infestation - Crustacean Diseases Caused By Parasites -
Answer (click here)
12. Sporozoans - Crustacean Diseases Caused By Parasites - Answer (click
here)
13. Microsporeans - Crustacean Diseases Caused By Parasites - Answer (click
here)
14. Life Cycle Patterns of Fish Parasites - Answer (click here)

Environmental and other non infectious diseases

1. Gas Bubble Disease - Fish Diseases - Answer (click here)
2. Swimbladder stress syndrome (SBSS) - Fish Diseases - Answer (click here)
3. Fish Diseases Associated With Physico-Chemical Properties of Water -
Answer (click here)
 4. Shrimp Diseases Associated With Physico-Chemical properties of Water
- Answer (click here)
5. Muscle Necrosis - Shrimp Diseases - Answer (click here)
6. Black Gill Disease - Shrimp Diseases - Answer (click here)
7. Red Disease - Shrimp Diseases - Answer (click here)
8. Chronic Soft-Shell Syndrome Soft-Shelling - Shrimp Diseases - Answer
(click here)

Nutritional diseases
1. Types of Feeds - fish in aquaculture - Answer (click here)
2. Components of Feeds - fish in aquaculture - Answer (click here)
3. Determining the nutritional status of fish - Answer (click here)
4. Nutritional deficiency diseases of fish - Answer (click here)
5. Nutritional diseases of shrimps - Answer (click here)
6. Feed quality problems with health implications - Answer (click here)

Physical environmental and chemical methods of disease

prevention and control
1. Physical methods of disease prevention and control in Aquaculture -
Answer (click here)
2. Environmental methods of disease prevention and control in
Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
3. Chemical methods of disease prevention and control in Aquaculture -
Answer (click here)
4. Disadvantages of Chemical Treatment in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
5. Prevention of Drug Resistance in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
6. Principles of Bioassay - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer
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Immunity and biological methods of disease prevention and

control
1. Immunity and biological methods of disease prevention and control in
Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
2. The fish immune system - Answer (click here)
3. Innate or Non-specific Immunity - The fish immune system - Answer
(click here)
4. Cellular Barriers of the Innate Immune System - The fish immune
system - Answer (click here)
5. Adaptive or Specific Immunity - The fish immune system - Answer (click
 here)
6. Humoral immunity - The fish immune system - Answer (click here)
7. Antibody Production - The fish immune system - Answer (click here)
8. Immunologic Memory - The fish immune system - Answer (click here)
9. Cellular Immunity - The fish immune system - Answer (click here)
10. Crustacean immune system - Answer (click here)
11. Defense Mechanisms in Crustaceans - Answer (click here)
12. Immunosuppression - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer (click
here)
13. Avoidance of Pathogens - biological methods of disease prevention and
control in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
14. The Role of Stress in Disease - biological methods of disease prevention
and control in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
15. Improvements in Host Resistance - biological methods of disease
prevention and control in Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
16. Biological Modification of the Culture System in Aquaculture - Answer
(click here)

Immunological and molecular biology techniques in disease

diagnosis
1. Immunological techniques in disease diagnosis - Health Management in
Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
2. Agglutination - Aquaculture Immunological techniques in disease
diagnosis - Answer (click here)
3. Precipitation - Aquaculture Immunological techniques in disease
diagnosis - Answer (click here)
4. Fluorescent Antibody Technique (FAT) - Aquaculture Immunological
techniques in disease diagnosis - Answer (click here)
5. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) - Aquaculture
Immunological techniques in disease diagnosis - Answer (click here)
6. Western Blotting - Aquaculture Immunological techniques in disease
diagnosis - Answer (click here)
7. Molecular biology techniques in disease diagnosis - Aquaculture -
Answer (click here)
8. Gene probe assays - Aquaculture Molecular biology techniques in
disease diagnosis - Answer (click here)
9. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) - Aquaculture Molecular biology
techniques in disease diagnosis - Answer (click here)

Harmful and toxic algae

1. Harmful and toxic algae - Health Management in Aquaculture - Answer
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2. Conditions that stimulate harmful and toxic algal blooms - Answer (click
here)
3. Types of harmful and toxic algal blooms - Health Management in
Aquaculture - Answer (click here)
4. Effects of harmful and toxic algal blooms to fish and marine
environment - Answer (click here)
5. Strategies in coping with the problem of harmful and toxic algal blooms
- Aquaculture - Answer (click here)