THOMAS GALLAGHER: SD Animal Health - supporting Irish Aquaculture

SD Animal Health - supporting Irish Aquaculture

Thomas Gallagher, MSD Animal Health Ireland

Thomas Gallagher

MSD Animal Health is dedicated to being the leading force in delivering new and valuable animal health products, solutions, and services, thus improving the health and well-being of all animals, including aquaculture.

The Aquaculture team collaborates with farm and management personnel within farming companies, providing biological and pharmaceutical products, technical services, and support for both Atlantic salmon and trout species.

Atlantic salmon is the main species farmed in Ireland, nearly all of which is organic. The value of farmed salmon, including the processing and smoking sectors, is around €350 million and employs more than 400, particularly around the fragile coastal communities. It is also a valuable part of the export economy, with 85% of product sold in Europe, the US, Canada, and the Middle East.

high-quality produce

Ireland’s salmon farmers adhere to the strictest production standards and produce a high-quality product in demand from consumers. In addition, salmon farming is highly efficient and environmentally friendly, with a low carbon footprint and low water consumption. Overall, it is an industry with tremendous growth potential.

Key to fish farming growth over the past decades is an excellent level of health control and the availability of safe and effective products to prevent and control diseases.

MSD Animal Health offers a wide range of superior, high-performance products supported by a customerfocused service. The effective use of our vaccines can help maximise fish survival, growth, and production efficiency for major farmed species. MSD Animal Health also offers products for the treatment and prevention of all stages of the parasitic sea lice, which supports the stock’s overall health throughout the production cycle.

mSd aNimal health iNtelligeNce

MSD Animal Health Intelligence is a newly formed operating unit specialising in identifying, traceability, monitoring solutions, and services. Biomark and Vaki, both world leaders in conservation and aquaculture hardware, software, and data services, are part of this.

Biomark has led the advancement of PIT Tag technology for fish and wildlife, adapting quickly to meet the data capture needs of commercial and research clients.

Vaki is a pioneer in aquaculture, wild fish conservation monitoring equipment, and real-time video monitoring technology to advance fish health and welfare. The new unit will enable customers to access critical insights to facilitate planning and decisionmaking while increasing automation and efficiency.

aqua care365

MSD Animal Health Aquaculture is passionate about producing marketleading solutions to promote fish health and welfare among farmed salmon and trout. The latest endeavour in our commitment to animal welfare is Aqua Care365. At the heart of this initiative is employee training and ensuring everyone working with fish understands normal fish behaviour and can handle and treat fish with the best quality care. The learning environment offers a library of short video lessons, quiz questions, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Customer service and technical support remain at the heart of all our products and services. As well as our team based in Ireland, we can also draw on global expertise, mainly from Scotland and Norway.

Further information: MSD Animal Health, Red Oak North, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland.

01-297 02 20 vet-support.ie@msd.com

Pharmaq has it covered…!

mediciNal productS

Since the last edition of Aquaculture & Seafood Ireland in 2020, there have been a few changes to how PHARMAQ operates in Ireland, including supply. For the time being, Brexit means that pharmaceutical products batch released for sale in the EU cannot now transition through the UK for re-entry into the EU Single Market. PHARMAQ Ltd in Fordingbridge, Hampshire, can no longer supply vaccines, lice therapeutants, or anaesthetics to fish farms in Ireland. However, these products, all of which require veterinary authorisation before sale, will be supplied directly from our facilities in Norway. The direct and efficient air freight service operating between Oslo and Dublin has already proved to be a seamless supply route. Your veterinarian can place orders with Laila Egeli in our Oslo Head Quarters, whose contact details are included here.

Although orders will now be managed from Norway, Chris Mitchell (contact details below) will be available for sales support services and a point of contact for all technical or logistical queries.

diagNoStic aNd coNSultaNcy ServiceS

Readers will know that in August 2020, PHARMAQ Analytiq became the proud owners of the Fish Vet Group (FVG). FVG is represented in Ireland by Felix Scholz and his colleagues, Susie Mitchell and Emmanuelle Millaire.

Combining FVG and PHARMAQ Analytiq created a company unmatched globally in terms of resources, expertise, capacity to undertake research into new and emerging diseases, and improved knowledge of existing ones. Aquaculturists in Ireland will continue to avail of uninterrupted service from Felix and his team, now operating with a greatly expanded support network behind them.

CUSTOM-MADE SHELLFISH WORKBOATS

With over 30 years of experience, NAVALU stands as one of the leader in the aluminium workboat building industry in France. Specialised in producing aquaculture and marine services boats designed and built to your specification, our large workshop can produce vessels up to 33m.

vacciNatioN ServiceS

The majority of fish vaccination in Ireland is now achieved using machines where the numbers of fish involved both justify and require a brisk rate of vaccine delivery within a highly controlled process. These services are currently supplied by the Scotland-based Highland Aqua Team. Their mobile vaccination unit, equipped with PHARMAQ Fishteq’s NFT vaccination machines, can access most freshwater installations and deliver multiple injections of up to 16,000 fish per hour.

all baSeS covered

By pulling together the strands of medicine, diagnostics, and prophylaxis, PHARMAQ - as part of Zoetis - is focussed on providing a continuum of care across the increasingly complex and often fragmented landscape of fish health.

A l l o u r b o a t s a r e d e s i g n e d a n d b u i l t i n o u r s h i p y a r d i n V e n d é e

www.navalu.fr contact@navalu.fr +33 (0)2 51 49 06 49 Port du Bec, Bouin 85230 France