Events - Fish Health Management Workshop 2005, About
14 - 15 June 2005
Leborska, Poland
About
The Fish Health Management Workshop, organised locally by Dariusz Gorbaczow, was located in Nowa Wies' Leborska, Poland and was presented by CSN INTRAN's pharmaceutical partner Schering Plough animal health (Aquaculture). Danish feed company Aller-Aqua were also involved as sponsors of the event.
The workshop was the culmination of a project for the dissemination of information and knowledge within the EU to former Eastern European countries, and is the first of a number of such workshops. The event was attended by more than 70 industry representatives from Poland and was made up of fish farmers, veterinarians and local industry press.
Prof Patrick Smith (Director of New Business Development) and Dr Chris Gould (Salmonid Sector Technical manager) of Schering Plough Animal Health's global Aquaculture unit gave a series of lectures and talks to promote health management within the trout farming sector.
The first day of the workshop concentrated on the major diseases for which vaccines were available, and then detailed presentations were given on how to apply these vaccines to achieve the best performance possible. The second day of the workshop concentrated on vaccination strategies to give protection throughout the lifecycle of the fish with particular reference to newly developed oral vaccines. The workshop was concluded with a 30 minute DVD demonstrating the practical aspect of fish vaccination.
The information provided by Schering Plough through this workshop could provide the ideal stepping stone for Polish trout farmers to improve their own businesses and enable them to become more cost efficient and therefore more profitable through the use of preventative health management solutions. These solutions can potentially also bring about improved animal welfare benefits due to the reduced level of mortalities and disease suffered by the trout populations.
Visit the photo gallery of the workshop
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