“diagnostics for future: Precision Diagnostics in Aquaculture”

13th September 2023, Mumbai

ICAR-Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai conducted an international workshop on “Diagnostics for Future: Precision Diagnostics in Aquaculture” today under the aegis of the National Agricultural Higher Education Project. The objective of the workshop was to illustrate the importance and execution of precision diagnostics in aquatic animal health management to augment the sustainability and security of the aquaculture sector to meet global demands of aquatic food production.

Dr. C.N. Ravishankar, Director, and Vice-Chancellor, said that meeting the food security of the growing population and securing quality fish produce depends on specific, sensitive, and rapid disease diagnostics in aquaculture. 

Dr. P. K. Sahoo, Director, ICAR-Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Bhubaneswar, was the Chairman of the Workshop and emphasised the prerequisite for developing need-based precise diagnostics for suitable therapeutic development and enhancing fish production.

Dr. N.P. Sahu, Joint Director, and Principal Investigator, NAHEP accentuated the importance of precision diagnostics and in-depth innovations in point-of-care applications and technologies for health management.

Dr. Arun K. Dhar, Professor and Director, Aquaculture Pathology Laboratory, School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences, The University of Arizona, sermonizes on “Expediting pathogen discovery pipeline to prevent disease pandemics in shrimp aquaculture”.

A total of 154 participants actively participated in the workshop.

(Source: ICAR-The Central Institute of Fisheries Education, Mumbai)