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30 Nov 2007	Haddock culture: Current knowledge and challenges The cod Gadus morhua is receiving the greatest current interest in the diversification of north temperate aquaculture, but the haddock Melanogrammus aeglefinus, a related gadoid species, is another promising ...
25 Nov 2007	Step by step guide to a marine water parasite prevention plan (PPP) This article has been prepared as a practical guide-line to help small to medium size marine cage farmers within the Asia-Pacific region cope with common external parasites. Read it as a guide-line ...
22 Nov 2007	Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) in Chile, 2007 Infectious salmon anemia (ISA) is an infectious disease caused by an orthomyxo-like-virus. It was reported for the first time 24 years ago in Norway. Later ISA was also reported in Canada (New Brunswick ...
21 Nov 2007	Intervet Participation in Forthcoming 8th Asian Fisheries Forum in November 2007 Reinforcing our continuing commitment to the development of sustainable aquaculture in Asia, Intervet is a proud sponsor 8th Asian Fisheries Forum 2007 which will be held in Kochi, India from November ...
19 Nov 2007	Schering-Plough & Intervet - "Growing Stronger Growing Better" Schering-Plough Corporation announced on November 19th that it has completed the acquisition of Intervet which is part of Organon BioSciences N.V., creating a stronger combined company with broader human ...
12 Nov 2007	Intervet are proud sponsors of the first Fish Health Master class held in Bangkok, Thailand The Australian Centre for International Agricultural research (ACIAR) and the Crawford Foundation have come forward to fund a 2-week master class on aquatic animal pathology. The course is coordinated ...
10 Oct 2007	Bacterial diseases of finfish in the South East Asian region Fish mortality associated with infectious disease in South East Asia remains high. Often mortality over a typical production cycle ranges between 20-80%. Due to a general lack of diagnostic capacity, ...
17 Sep 2007	Some impressions from the 13th European Association of Fish Pathologists meeting Eric Rijke, Intervet InternationalAround 350 participants attended. The scientific program consisted of 127 oral (parallel sessions) and more than 200 poster presentations.The conference keynote presentation ...
23 Aug 2007	Intervet at the Second International Technical and Trade Conference - "Tilapia 2007" Intervet was proud to be a silver sponsor of this conference which was held on 23-25 August in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It attracted nearly 300 delegates representing all sectors of the tilapia industry ...
18 Aug 2007	2007 Symposium – Chinese Society of Fish Diseases This symposium was held on August 18th & 19th in Urumqi, XingJiang. Approximately 100 researchers, representing all major research institutes, universities and government agencies, participated in ...
15 Aug 2007	The first group of aquatic animal health specialists certified in China After an intensive 15-day training, 22 trainees from Guangdong Province successfully passed the exams and received a certificate as aquatic animal health specialists on August 15, 2007. The program consisted ...
14 Aug 2007	Intervet at Aqua Nor 2007 The worlds largest exhibition for fish farmers, Aqua Nor, took place from August 14-17 in Trondheim, Norway. As always, Intervet Norbio AS had a booth in the busiest exhibition hall. Intervet Norbio staff ...
5 Aug 2007	Intervet at Asian Pacific Aquaculture 2007. The Asian Pacific chapter of the World Aquaculture Society held its annual meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam from August 5-8. The conference was attended by Dr Yoshinobu Wada, from Intervet KK, Japan, and Drs ...
18 Jul 2007	New Global Aquatic Veterinary Association Formed The first Annual General Meeting of the newly formed Aquatic Veterinary Association (AqVA) will be held on July 18, 2007 in Washington DC, USA, in conjunction with the144th AVMA ANNUAL CONVENTION. Online ...
7 Jun 2007	Intervet Inc. (USA) AAH Team Thinks “Outside The Box” AQUAVAC-ESC®, first launched in the USA in 2000, was marketed to the aquaculture industry to prevent Edwardsciella ictaluri from devastating catfish production. The product was effective and profitable ...
5 Jun 2007	Caligiasis In The Chilean Salmon Farming Industry Maria-Jose Birrer (Intervet Chile Ltd.) Caligiasis is a parasitic disease which affects marine fish in Chile. The parasite is endemic and is located in the skin where it feeds from the mucus of the affected ...
3 Jun 2007	Duration Of Immunity Of Norvax® Strep Si Under Normal Farming Conditions Dr.Cedric Komar & Dr Lauke Labrie ( Intervet Norbio Singapore)Norvax® Strep Si is a water-based inactivated vaccine against Streptococcus iniae infections in fish. Laboratory studies show that a ...
1 Jun 2007	Parasitic Diseases Of Tilapia Dr. Cedric Komar and Neil Wendover (Intervet Norbio Singapore)In the last three issues of the Intervet Aquatic Animal Health Newsletter, we presented a series of articles on tilapia diseases: first a ...
15 Apr 2007	International Co-operation to Further Knowledge and Understanding of Salmonid Alphaviruses Two years ago an international group of key salmon industry people and scientists from Ireland, France, Norway and Scotland was set up to speedily advance and address the gaps in our knowledge of pancreas ...
1 Apr 2007	Intervet Participates in the 7th International Symposium on Viruses of Lower Vertebrates Karen Elina Christie (Intervet Norbio, Bergen) recently gave a talk at the 7th International Symposium on Viruses of Lower Vertebrates in Oslo (Norway) in April, 2007. The topic covered was the development ...
1 Mar 2007	Intervet Aquatic Animal Health at VIV ASIA 2007 With the Asia-Pacific region being home to 90% of the world's aquaculture production, the slowing growth of wild capture production and high prices for fish have accelerated aquaculture production in ...
1 Dec 2006	Columnaris in Tilapia Introduction Continuing the theme of diseases in tilapia we have highlighted in the previous two issues (Intervet Aquatic Animal Health Newsletter no. 11 and 12), another major bacterial disease known ...
29 Nov 2006	NACA: 5th Asia regional advisory group meeting on AAH The fifth Asia Regional Advisory Group Meeting on Aquatic Animal Health (AGM-5) was held at the Headquarters of NACA in Bangkok, Thailand. The advisory group was established by the Governing Council of ...
25 Nov 2006	VIBRIOSIS IN ATLANTIC COD – A CHALLENGE IN INTENSIVE CULTURE By Solveig Nygaard, Fish Health and Environment Inc., Veterinarian Specializing in FishVibriosis, as caused by the bacteria Listonella (Vibrio) anguillarum, was the first of the known bacterial fish diseases. ...
24 Nov 2006	Intervet support AwF Intervet International bv (www.intervet.com) is dedicating its 2006 Christmas donation (in lieu of sending out Christmas and New Year cards) to four non-governmental organizations (NGO’s). Four initiatives ...
20 Nov 2006	Intervet at australasian aquaculture conference The Australasian Aquaculture conference is a biennial event and was held this year in Adelaide, Australia during 27-30th August. The theme was “Innovation in Aquaculture” and the conference attracted ...
15 Nov 2006	Highlights of the fifth International Symposium of Aquatic Animal Health The symposium was held at the San Francisco Marriott on Sept. 2-6 and was attended by approximately 275 people. The programme consisted of several plenary lectures followed by lectures on selected topics. ...
10 Nov 2006	INTERVET AT CAA2 The 2nd International Symposium on Cage Aquaculture in Asia (CAA2) was held in Hangzhou, China July 4 – 6, 2006. The symposium was organized by the Asian Fisheries Society with support from Zhejiang University ...
5 Nov 2006	Newsletter editor ends 6-year term Dr. William Enright, International Marketing & Pharmaceutical Manager for the Aquatic Animal Health (AAH) Division, has decided to return to his native country of Ireland. After nearly 11 years with Intervet ...
2 Nov 2006	New team member at Intervet Norbio Singapore Neil Wendover joined the Veterinary Services Department of Intervet Norbio Singapore in September 2006 in a new position as Technical Officer. He comes most recently from GenoMar, a world-renowned tilapia ...
30 Oct 2006	Intervet participate at ISTA 7 in Mexico The seventh International Symposium for Tilapia Aquaculture (ISTA 7) was held in Veracruz, Mexico from the 6th to the 9th of September, 2006. Three Intervet staff (Cedric Komar of Intervet Norbio Singapore, ...
20 Jun 2006	Completion of one-year epidemiology study in marine fish cultured in South China April 10, 2006 marked the successful completion of a year-long collaboration project among Sun Yat sen University, the local Fisheries Bureau and Intervet Norbio Singapore. The purpose of the study was ...
20 Jun 2006	Aquaculture Health International Magazine celebrates its first birthday Aquaculture Health International is an independent quarterly magazine produced jointly by Patterson Peddie Consulting Ltd in the UK and VIP Publications Ltd in New Zealand. It is currently available ...
20 Jun 2006	Change of Management at Intervet Norbio Singapore On April 7th last, a party was organized in the Orchid Hotel in Singapore so that friends and colleagues of Dr. Ann Tips and Dr. Luc Grisez could wish them farewell and good luck as they left Intervet ...
20 Jun 2006	Fish vaccination machines in Norway Solveig Nygaard, Fiskehelse og Miljø AS, Veterinary Specialist - FishIn the early years of the salmon industry in Norway, vaccination by hand was essentially the only method used to vaccinate fish. However, ...
20 Jun 2006	Intervet at Aqua Sur 2006 Intervet Veterinaria Chile Ltda. had a very attractive booth at the recent (March 22-25) Aqua Sur tradeshow in Puerto Montt. According to the organisers, the tradeshow was attended by over 13,000 visitors ...
20 Jun 2006	Intervet to play an active role at CAA2 The 2nd International Symposium on Cage Aquaculture in Asia will take place in Hangzhou, China this summer (July 3 – 8). The recent advances, potentials, challenges and problems of cage aquaculture in ...
20 Jun 2006	New innovative Aquaculture information tool just launched by CABI Intenational In April, 2006, CABI launched the Aquaculture Compendium, which they claim to be the world’s first encyclopaedic, multimedia information tool covering all aspects of aquaculture production and health. This ...
20 Jun 2006	New Manager at Intervet Norbio Singapore Dr. Brian Sheehan has recently taken up the position of R&D and Site Manager at Intervet Norbio Singapore. Prior to this, Brian worked as a Project Manager in the R&D Department of Intervet UK. ...
20 Jun 2006	Publications from Intervet Norbio Singapore Komar, C, Z. Tan, W.J. Enright and L. Grisez. 2006. The salmon vaccination story: an inspiration for the successful development of vaccines for barramundi in Australia. AustralAsian Aquaculture Conf. ...
20 Jun 2006	Report on Regional Workshop: The Future of Mariculture The workshop was organized by FAO and NACA, and hosted by the Chinese government between March 7 and 11, 2006 in Guangzhou, China. A total of 45 participants attended, including representatives from eleven ...
20 Jun 2006	Streptococcosis in Tilapia IntroductionThe theory that tilapia is a hardy and disease-resistant fish species is no longer correct. Producers, scientists and processors have now become aware that diseases may well be the number ...
20 Jun 2006	Intervet is the Proud Sponsor of TheFishSite.com Since February 2006, Intervet International is a proud sponsor of TheFishSite, a sister website of the renowned ThePigSite and ThePoultrySite websites, also supported by Intervet. TheFishSite hosts aquaculture ...
20 Jan 2006	Chilean salmon farmers visit Intervet As part of their ‘AquaTrends 2005’ trip in August, a group of fifteen Chilean managers in the salmon industry travelled through four European countries to learn about the most advanced research and production ...
1 Dec 2005	Intervet at World Aquaculture 2005 To mark the launch of our first vaccine (against Streptococcus iniae infections) in farmed warm-water fish in Asia, a technical seminar on ‘Fish vaccination in the Asia-Pacific region” was held a few ...
25 Nov 2005	Intervet is proud to support CAA2 Intervet is proud to support The Second International Symposium on Cage Aquaculture in Asia, to be held during July 3-8, 2006 in Hangzhou City, China. Cage aquaculture has a long history in Asia, but ...
25 Nov 2005	Vaccination of Salmon - Where is the correct injectino point? Arild Kollevaag, Commercial Operations Dept., Intervet Norbio ASIn recent years, between 160 and 170 million salmon and rainbow trout have been vaccinated each year in Norway. The vast majority of these ...
20 Nov 2005	AQUA NOR 2005 The worlds largest exhibition for fish farmers, AQUA NOR, took place during August 9-11 in Trondheim (see photo on right), Norway. As always, Intervet Norbio AS had a very nice booth in the busiest hall. Intervet ...
20 Nov 2005	Intervet at Diseaeses in Asian Aquaculture VI The DAA VI symposium, with the theme “Aquatic Animal Health – Facing New Challenges”, took place on October 25 - 28, 2005 in Colombo, Sri Lanka. This triennial event, organized by the Fish Health Section ...
20 Nov 2005	New People in Intervet Aquatic Animal Health Lene Høgset is a veterinarian who started working as a Customer Support Officer at Intervet Norbio AS in Bergen, Norway in June 2005. Before this, she worked for the Directorate of Fisheries and the Norwegian ...
18 Nov 2005	Innovative CD on "Fish Vaccination and Health Management in Asia" Intervet Norbio Singapore and Intervet International have developed an innovative educational CD on fish vaccination and health management, with a focus on Asia (although it may also be particularly useful ...
18 Nov 2005	Intervet Australia Enters Aquatic Animal Health Market Intervet (Australia) Pty. Ltd. is based in Bendigo, a large town in central Victoria, in the south-east corner of Australia, approximately 200 km northwest of Melbourne. The site houses the Intervet Australia ...
16 Nov 2005	Diseases of Tilapia AN INTRODUCTIONTilapia is native to Africa and the Middle East. A decade ago, few people knew much about tilapia. Today, it has emerged to become the second biggest aquatic species group after the carp ...
9 Nov 2005	Intervet Global Aquatic Animal Health Meeting November 2005, Singapore In early November, Intervet Aquatic Animal Health held their biennial global strategy meeting at Intervet Norbio Singapore. The discussions were vigourous and fruitful. From left to right: Alistair ...
3 Jun 2005	Intervet is proud sponsor of DAA VI Intervet is a proud sponsor of the 6th Symposium on Diseases in Asian Aquaculture (DAA VI). The Fish Health Section (FHS) of the Asian Fisheries Society is organizing “The 6th Symposium on Diseases in ...
2 Jun 2005	Intervet Staff Attend 7th Asian Fisheries Forum in Penang, Malaysia Mr. Alistair Brown, Director of Intervet AAH, and Dr. Zilong Tan, Director of Technical Services at Intervet Norbio Singapore, attended the 7th Asian Fisheries Forum in Penang, Malaysia, Nov. 30 – Dec ...
2 Jun 2005	Intervet Staff Attend 7th Asian Fisheries Forum in Penang, Malaysia Mr. Alistair Brown, Director of Intervet AAH, and Dr. Zilong Tan, Director of Technical Services at Intervet Norbio Singapore, attended the 7th Asian Fisheries Forum in Penang, Malaysia, Nov. 30 – Dec ...
22 May 2005	2005 - A Milestone year for Intervet Aquatic Animal Health 20 years experience in AAH 10 salmon vaccines 5 years of R&D operations in Singapore 5 years/10 issues of Intervet AAH Newsletter 2nd fish vaccine in USA 1st fish vaccine for Japan 1st warmwater ...
10 May 2005	Five Fruitful years of operations at Intervet Norbio Singapore Intervet decided to set up Asia-Pacific’s first and only private aquatic animal health (AAH) R&D centre, Intervet Norbio Singapore Pte. Ltd. (INS), which was completed in January 2000 (see also Intervet ...
5 May 2005	Intervet's first warmwater fish vaccine This year marks the launch of Intervet’s first south-east Asian fish vaccine, Norvax® Strep Si, an immersion and injection vaccine against Streptococcus iniae infections in warmwater fish (see Intervet ...
2 May 2005	Intervet's first fish vaccin for Japan This year will mark the launch of Intervet’s first fish vaccine in Japan, Norvax® Vibrio mono, an immersion vaccine against Vibrio anguillarum infections of Japanese yellowtail. Several more complex Intervet ...
25 Apr 2005	Large Intervet AAH presence at World Aquaculture 2005 in Bali Intervet will have a booth (no. 209 - 210) during the World Aquaculture 2005 conference and trade show in Bali in May. In addition, three presentations will be made by Intervet Norbio Singapore staff ...
15 Nov 2004	Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia (SRS) SRS (a.k.a. Salmon Rickettsial Syndrome or Piscirickettsiosis or Coho salmon septicaemia or Huito disease) is considered to be the most important disease problem in the Chilean salmon farming industry, ...
11 Nov 2004	New responsibilities at Intervet Norbio Earlier this year, Dag H. Knappskog was appointed Director of R&D for Intervet Norbio a.s. (Bergen, Norway) which left his old position as Director of the Commercial Operation Department (better known ...
4 Nov 2004	Intervet Chile launch two new vaccines Intervet first entered the Chilean aquatic animal health market in 2000 with the monovalent vaccine against IPN, Compact™ IPN, protecting against infectious pancreatic necrosis virus. Due to the excellent ...
4 Nov 2004	Intervet market survey in Indian subcontinent To investigate the fast-growing aquaculture industry in the Indian subcontinent, Dr. Zilong Tan and Dr. Sikka (see photo caption) recently toured several areas in Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh. The ...
3 Nov 2004	NACA - sponsored disease card on infection with KHV relaesed Further to our articles on KHV that appeared in Intervet AAH Newsletter no. 6, 7 and 8, a new publication 'Infection with koi herpesvirus - disease card', written by M. Crane, M. Sano and C. Komar on ...
20 Oct 2004	Intervet staff attend tilapia conference in the Philippines The 6th International Symposium on Tilapia Aquaculture took place this September in Manila and dr. Zilong Tan and Cedric Komar DVM of Intervet Singapore attended. Delegates from over 30 different countries ...
24 May 2004	International workshop on KHV In February 2004, an international workshop on koi herpesvirus (and related) disease took place in the U.K. The objectives were: to assess the current status of the disease regarding its impact on the ...
22 May 2004	Atypical Vibiriosis in Chile During the winter and spring of 2003, Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) reared in sea and brackish water net pen sites on the coast of Southern Chile were affected by several unusual disease outbreaks. The ...
15 May 2004	Intervet well represented at Aquasur 2004 The third AquaSur aquaculture international fair was held in March in the city of Puerto Montt, Chile. This year the exhibition involved the participation of 32 countries, deployed in nearly 266 stands ...
10 May 2004	Intervet AAH Director visits fish and shrimp farms in Asia In view of the importance of Asian aquaculture, Alistair Brown, Director of Intervet’s Aquatic Animal Health Division, recently spent two weeks in Asia. During his trip, Alistair visited a number of ...
16 Oct 2003	Gonazon, first registered GnRH spawning aid in EU/Norway In salmonid aquaculture, the normal spawning season extends over many weeks (typically 6 to 8), requiring repeated anaesthesia and handling of a large number of fish. As a consequence, it is difficult ...
15 Oct 2003	Laboratorios Intervet in Spain Laboratorios Intervet S.A is located in Salamanca, a city with plenty of monuments and where one of the oldest universities in the world was set up back in the 13th century. UNESCO recently declared it ...
12 Oct 2003	KHV isolated and to be renamed [See Intervet AAH Newsletter no. 6 for related article.] According to research findings in a forthcoming article in the quality journal Vaccine, the virus that has been the cause of high mortalities in ...
10 Oct 2003	Streptococcus iniae infections in Asian Aquaculture Streptococcal disease caused by Streptococcus iniae is without doubt one of the major bacterial diseases in fish. It has been reported to cause significant mortality in more than 12 different aquaculture ...
15 Jun 2003	Intervet Global Aquatic Animal Health Meeting, May 2003 Back row (L to R): D. Knappskog, R. Busch, F. Sterner, A. Brown, O. Parra. Middle row (L to R): E. Hendricks, K. Schuster, D. Lütticken. O.M. Rødseth, S. Koumans, M. McLoughlin, A. Tanaeno. Seated (L ...
20 Mar 2003	Aquatic Animal Health in Intervet Ireland Intervet Ireland Ltd. is a local company representative of Intervet International B.V. The Aquatic Animal Health Division of Intervet is headquartered in Boxmeer, The Netherlands and has R&D sites ...
18 Mar 2003	Koi Carp disease in Indonesia - Intervet helps out! Intervet Participation in an Investigation of a Serious Disease Outbreak of Koi and Common Carp in IndonesiaA serious disease outbreak in Koi carp (Cyprinus carpio koi, an ornamental fish) and common ...
15 Mar 2003	Norvax Compact 4 Norvax® Compact 4 is a vaccine containing Aeromonas salmonicida subsp.salmonicida, Vibrio salmonicida, Vibrio anguillarum serotype O1 and Vibrio anguillarum serotype O2a. The vaccine induces protective ...
14 Mar 2003	Coldwater Vibriosis in Salmonids Coldwater vibriosis, also called “Hitra” disease, is a problem in farmed salmon. It has caused heavy losses in Norway since the 1970`s. The disease is caused by the bacterium Vibrio salmonicida (V. salm).Clinical ...
10 Mar 2003	New arrivals in Singapore ... Cedric Komar DVM (right) and Lauke Labrie DVM (left) recently took up important new positions in Intervet Norbio Singapore. Cedric, from France originally, is a new Technical Officer working with Dr. ...
3 Mar 2003	Changing the health of Asian Aquaculture The aquatic animal health research centre, Intervet Singapore Pte Ltd., faces the challenge of developing and immunomodulators for fish and shrimp, the success which would change the face of the aquaculture ...
24 Oct 2002	La Vacunación como estrategia sanitaria a corto plazo La tecnologia en el desarrollo de vacunas para diferentes especies animales, ha sido la piedra fundadora en la misión de Intervet en el pasado y lo sequilásiendo en el futuro. A través de charlas técnicas ...
1 Oct 2001	Aquatic health in the new millennium - An Intervet Editorial Intervet editorial, translated and reprinted from Industrial South America (ISA), Vol. 1, No. 5, Oct 2001, p.65-68During the last two decades, aquaculture has been one of the fastest expanding sectors ...
1 Oct 2001	Industrial South America (ISA) Magazine - intervet with Intervet International Translated and reprinted from Industrial South America (ISA), Vol. 1, No. 5, Oct 2001, p.53-56Talking with...ISA talks with Piet Wetterhahn, Intervet's area director for Latin America and Dr William Enright, ...