This document provides an introduction to a unit on planning stock health management. It will cover strategic aspects of managing stock health, including planning treatment strategies for pests, predators, and diseases. Specific topics that will be covered include monitoring regulations and data, calculating costs of treatment options, developing and advising on stock health plans, identifying common pathogens, and treatment options like chemicals, therapeutics, and environmental manipulation. Students will complete a case study on a stock health issue and treatments. Assessment will also include short lectures, readings, and practical activities.

1. SFIAQUA505B Plan stock
health management
Introduction to Unit
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2. SFIAQUA505B Plan stock
health management
- involves planning for stock health
management, including developing and
communicating enterprise procedures for
managing and monitoring stock health.
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3. Stuff we’ll be covering
• Strategic aspects of managing stock health
• Management of pests, predators and diseases
• Planning treatment strategies
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4. Stuff we’ll be covering
• Monitoring the literature, regulations and
economic data
• Communicating
• Calculating cost benefit of various
treatment/prevention options
• Interpreting monitoring data
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5. Stuff we’ll be covering
• Undertaking a health analysis on stock
• Using a microscope
Uni of Florida
http://tal.ifas.ufl.edu/services_available.htm#Live_Exam_with_External_Tissue_Biopsies_
Pic: Olympus
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6. Stuff we’ll be covering
• Identify common disease/parasite organisms
• Make informed decisions
• Develop, advise and monitor stock health
management plans
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7. Stuff we’ll be covering
• Will all be up on Moodle (including this and
all other Powerpoint slides)
• Content added progressively to the Moodle
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8. Stuff we’ll be covering
Diseases, inc:
• parasites (endo- and ecto-)
• fungi
• viruses
• bacteria
• worms (polychaetes, nemerteans)
• predators
• pollutants
• pest or competitor organisms
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9. Stuff we’ll be covering
Treatment options, inc:
• bath treatments (chemicals)
• oral treatment (therapeutics)
• injections (therapeutics, vaccines)
• biological control (cleaner fish) and probiotics
• resistant phase/species
• environmental manipulation
• barrier control, such as quarantine, disinfection
• exclusion, such as filters, UV, ozone
• culling stock
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10. Unit Content
Delivery via VC and Moodle
At least one whole
day to get out to a
farm and
observe/participate
in stock health
management…?
Talk to me if you know all this stuff and think that
you should get RPL for this Unit
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11. Assessment for this Unit *
• Case study:
– A stock health issue affecting a culture species of
your choice (local?)
– Prepare a report covering the
• Disease
• Species
• Treatment options
• Issues (regulatory etc)
• Other
* Assessment matrix will be posted on Moodle. As will a Report Template &
More detail soon
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12. Assessment for this Unit (cont.)
• Case study
• Short lectures plus Readings
– Activities and questions, to be submitted
• Practicals (eg microscopes)…
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