Fish Farmer

Widening the scope

From vaccines to sea lice to dissolved gas – scientists swap stories

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The annual gathering of ‘Pharmaqadi­ans’ in Inverness took place at with brushes and rocks at the Inverness curling rink – (rather more and deviousnes­s being played out on the ice).

This commenced with an update on Pharmaq’s long awaited vaccine

pathology, as well as reduced virus load, were described in vaccinated

developmen­t story of Pharmaq’s new vaccine for Yersiniosi­s (enteric red

fering from the same disease, and went on to emphasise the importance of choosing the appropriat­e vaccine with the correct isolate for the vaccinate species; the

syndrome (SRS) that has plagued the Chilean control method.

So a few years ago Pharmaq began working on a novel approach to address this disease by ically potent version of the SRS organism. The year and, although early days, so far the results

informing delegates of the wide variety of Some of these are more associated with wrasse, notable atypical A salmonicid­a, while others, ogists who must choose which microbes to include in vaccines.

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Above: Game of Stones

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