The Aquatic Animal Health Research Institute

Background

The Fish Health Section of the Asian Fisheries Society (AFS-FHS) was founded in 1989 to improve regional knowledge on fish health management and to develop awareness among Asian aquaculturists towards establishing a sustainable aquaculture industry The Section, in collaboration with various agencies, has organized trainings and workshops to develop and improve expertise in fish health management in the region. During its short existence, AFS-FHS has organized three international symposia on Diseases in Asian Aquaculture. The first was held in Bali, Indonesia in November 1990, the second in Phuket, Thailand in October 1993. and the third in Bangkok, Thailand in January 1996. At each of these symposia, more than 170 fish health scientists, students, government workers, and industry practitioners from some 20 countries attended to discuss problems affecting aquaculture commodities and their solutions. The proceedings of the three meetings have been published as volumes of the series Diseases in Asian Aquaculture: DAA 1 (1992), DAA 11 (1995), and DAA 111 (1997). These proceedings have become valuable references on fish health in the region.

On the threshold of its second decade, the AFS-FHS convenes the Fourth Symposium on Disease in Asian Aquaculture. The Symposium marks the tenth anniversary of AFSFHS with the continuing commitment to provide a venue to discuss problems affecting aquaculture in Asia, to evaluate current efforts and present trends towards making aquaculture sustainable, and to assess the advancements made to fish health in Asia.

Venue and Dates

The symposium will be held at the Cebu International Convention Center at the Waterfront Hotel, Cebu City, Philippines on November 22-26, 1999. Cebu City is known as the "Queen City of the South". Strategically located in the center of the Philippines, it is the country’s second biggest city arid is the most popular tourist destination outside Metro Manila. The new Mactan International Airport serves flights from HongKong. Osaka, Taipei, Singapore, Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur. Waterfront Cebu City Hotel is the city’s newest business hotel strategically located within easy reach from the financial district, shopping malls, golf courses and sandy white beaches.

Scientific Sessions

The Symposium’s scientific sessions will include invited plenary lectures, and contributed oral and poster presentations. The program will include (but is not limited to) the following topics: infectious and non-infectious disease of aquatic animals, including fish, reptiles and amphibians (both cultured and wild populations); Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome, vaccines, immunostimulants and other biological control methods, chemotheraphy and toxicology; diagnostic techniques; quarantine and legislation; environment and aquatic animal health

Call for Papers

You are invited to contribute a paper for oral or poster presentation during the conference. Although the Secretariat will try to accommodate your preferred manner of presentation, it serves the right to assign papers to either oral or poster presentation.

Complete manuscripts of papers to be presented must be submitted to the Secretariat during the Symposium. Following peer review, acceptable manuscripts will be published in the fourth volume of Disease in Asian Aquaculture.

Copyright İAAHRI 1999