Publication Abstract

Chemicals used in mariculture

D.J. Alderman, H. Rosenthal, P. Smith, J. Stewart and D. Weston (eds)

Mariculture inevitably means that marine animals are grown in what are relatively, at least, in-tensive conditions. Under such conditions disease is an ever present hazard and opportunist pests, competitors and fouling organisms are often presented with ideal conditions. When the first line of defence, good husbandry, fails operators are, as are all intensive animal culturists, driven to other means of control.

It should be emphasised at an early stage in this report that "chemicals" employed in maricul-ture may be of two types i) hygiene products for disinfection or for "environmental control" e.g. antifouling agents for fish cages and ii), much more important, medicinal products, divided into chemotherapeutic agents for therapy or prophylaxis of disease and act on the invading or-ganism and pharmacological drugs which act on the target animal. The discussion of the use of the latter inevitably involves the use of terms and abbreviations which may be unfamiliar to readers from outside the specific field. The Appendix provides a short list of terms and abbreviations to aid understanding.

Reference:

D.J. Alderman, H. Rosenthal, P. Smith, J. Stewart and D. Weston, 1994. Chemicals used in mariculture. ICES Co-operative Research Report, 202: 100pp.