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Mapping the knowledge of the main diseases affecting sea bass and sea bream in Mediterranean

Muniesa, Ana; Basurco, Bernardo; Aguilera, Cristóbal; Furones, Dolors; Reverté, Carmen; Sanjuan‐Vilaplana, Anna; Dverdal Jansen, Mona; Brun, Edgar; Tavornpanich, Saraya

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Abstract

Good knowledge on the disease situation and its impact on production is a base mechanism for designing health surveillance, risk analysis and biosecurity systems. Mediterranean marine fish farming, as any aquaculture production, is affected by various infectious diseases. However, seabass and seabream, the main produced species, are not listed as susceptible host species for the notifiable pathogens listed in the current EU legislation, which generates a lack of systematic reporting. The results presented in this study come from a survey directly to fish farms (50 hatchery and on‐growing units from 10 Mediterranean countries), with data from 2015 to 2017, conducted by the H2020 project MedAID. Seabass showed a higher survival rate (85%) through a production cycle than seabream (80%) in spite of equal mortality due to pathogen infections (10%). ; Correspondence Saraya Tavornpanich, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway. Email: saraya.tavornpanich@vetinst.no

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