Fish Diseases and Management

Theory

SYLLABUS-THEORY

• Significance of fish diseases in relation to aquaculture.
• Disease development process in fish and shellfish.
• Defense mechanism in finfish and shellfish- specific and non specific immun system.
• Role of stress and host defense mechanism in disease development.
• Host, pathogen and environment interaction.
• Pathogenecity and mechanism of bacterial, viral and fungal infections of finfish and shellfish.
• Morphology, biology and life cycle of parasites.
• Infectious diseases of cultured finfish and shellfish.
• Important disease epizootics of wild fish population.
• Zoonotic diseases.
• OIE listed and notifiable diseases.
• Principles of disease diagnosis.
• Case history and clinical sign in diagnosis.
• Conventional and rapid diagnostic techniques.
• Microscopical, microbiological, histopathological and biochemical methods.
• Antibody and nucleic acid based rapid diagnostics.
• Health management in aquaculture.
• Drugs, chemicals, antibiotics and probiotics used in aquaculture and their mode of action.
• Preventive strategies.
• Principles and methods of vaccine production and fish immunization.
• Quarantine and health certification in aquaculture.
• Crop rotation, Immunostimulants, bioremediation and polyculture as strategies for health management.
• Fish pharmacology – drugs, chemicals, antibiotics, probiotics and their mode of action.