Antimicrobial Use Surveillance Indicators for Finfish Aquaculture Production: A Review

Mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance in finfish aquaculture environments

Consumer demand for affordable fish drives the ever-growing global aquaculture industry. The intensification and expansion of culture conditions in the production of several finfish species has been coupled with an increase in bacterial fish disease and the need for treatment with antimicrobials. Understanding the molecular mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance prevalent in aquaculture environ...

Genomics and Genome Sequencing: Benefits for Finfish Aquaculture

The central dogma of molecular biology states that DNA is transcribed to RNA, which is translated into proteins (Crick, 1970), the molecules that facilitate all biological functions. A genome comprises all of an organism’s DNA, or hereditary information. The field of genomics is the study of whole genomes. Genomics has been defined as “a branch of biotechnology concerned with applying the techn...

Use of antimicrobial agents in aquaculture.

The aquaculture industry has grown dramatically, and plays an important role in the world's food supply chain. Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria associated with food animals receives much attention, and drug use in aquaculture is also an important issue. There are many differences between aquatic and terrestrial management systems, such as the methods used for administration of drugs. Unique...

Use of Emamectin Benzoate in the Canadian Finfish Aquaculture Industry: a Review of Environmental Fate and Effects

Antimicrobial resistance in aquaculture.

Appropriate antimicrobial therapy represents one of the most effective management responses to emergencies associated with infectious disease epizootics. The use of these agents, however, has the potential to increase the frequencies of bacterial resistance and this would have a negative impact on the subsequent use of these agents to control infectious disease in aquaculture. There is also a p...