Agriculture and Environment: Salmon Better Management Practices:
Reduce Diseases The development and widespread adoption of a
code of conduct could help producers both prevent diseases and
contain them if they occur. Producers need their own systems for
quarantining animals before introduction if countries do not
have their own rules or if such rules are inadequate or are not
enforced. The point here, however, is not simply to obey the
law. Diseases can wipe out operations, so there is too much at
stake to hide behind laws. Producers must develop their own
programs that exceed those of most countries because producers
stand to lose if things go wrong. The importance of disease
treatment & containment Once procedures are established, workers
need to understand their role in containment and disease
transference issues, whether they work in hatcheries or net-cage
operations. Vaccination programs should be mandatory, as should
the quarantine of sick animals. Fish that are untreatable should
be killed and properly