Abstract
The precarious status of wild populations all over the world as well as the pressure on aquaculture production to fulfill growing demand of fish protein, entail increasing concerns about fish health.This has led to a boost in research efforts, mainly to find cure to principal pathologies affecting either wild or domesticated species of commercial interest. As a result, a marketing of new diagnostic tools or new drugs has emerged and is expanding. This kind of strategy might sounds natural and well sounded: try to fix a problem when it appears, and if there is no problem, don’t touch anything. It results from the perception that a healthy fish is a fish without any disease, and this paradigm likely prevailed since the start of the aquaculture industry. However, considering the pressure to improve productivity in fish farms with a relatively low profit margin, we can wonder if this paradigm is still relevant or sufficient.
Highlights
The precarious status of wild populations all over the world as well as the pressure on aquaculture production to fulfill growing demand of fish protein, entail increasing concerns about fish health.This has led to a boost in research efforts, mainly to find cure to principal pathologies affecting either wild or domesticated species of commercial interest
It results from the perception that a healthy fish is a fish without any disease, and this paradigm likely prevailed since the start of the aquaculture industry
The aquaculture industry has been remarkably efficient to select fish strains for high economical value characters, for growth rate
Summary
The precarious status of wild populations all over the world as well as the pressure on aquaculture production to fulfill growing demand of fish protein, entail increasing concerns about fish health.This has led to a boost in research efforts, mainly to find cure to principal pathologies affecting either wild or domesticated species of commercial interest. The aquaculture industry has been remarkably efficient to select fish strains for high economical value characters, for growth rate.
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