25
The importance of immunization RaĂşl Benito Marco, HIPRA
When we think about disease management in our hatchery, we should bear in mind three main factors: fry, environment and pathogens. Our target is to have a healthy production system maintaining a balance between these three factors. Otherwise, the immune system will be affected by the imbalance between water quality, pathogen infection pressure or culture density, among others.
Prevention in fish farms The most important strategy for the establishment of a healthy system is prevention. Prevention means the protocol suite that we establish in our hatchery before
any health problems occur to avoid biomass and feed losses, overwork and treatments, loss of commercial value and delayed growth. At HIPRA we believe in animal health prevention as the most effective strategy for keeping animals safe against pathologies and helping farmers raise their animals in a healthy and secure environment. During our lives, we have found many situations where prevention is better than a cure. We know prevention involves some expense. But due to prevention, we reduce outbreaks in frequency and intensity, we decrease antibiotics use and biomass losses, we increase fish survival and we boost growth.
Hatchery Feed & Management Vol 8 Issue 2 2020
