A review on White Spot Disease in penaeid ... - Middle East - OIE

Monitoring the health status of the shrimp population• Beside the prevention, monitoring the health status of shrimps at any stage of lifein grow-out farms is also vital by using double step PCR test on the samplescollected by authorized technicians of veterinary organization of each countythrough their targeted surveillance program for WSSV.• Early detection of the virus presence in its latent form in the population of a farmand subsequent controlling practices can minimize the impact of the virus and itsprobable outbreak, through taking intelligent decisions regarding continuingfarming despite of the presence of pathogen by implementing special practices ,orconducting emergency harvest or even destroying the stock. Such approaches canprevent the pond from becoming a pathogen farm and a risk to other ponds.• It should be noticed that all these biosecurity principles would only be correctlyimplemented if there is a high level of adoption of Better Management Practices(BMPs) including concept of biosecurity among the farmers. The experiences ofNACA in this regard in India and Vietnam should be considered seriously by theother countries. Awareness and capacity building of farmers on farm-levelbiosecurity concepts should be taken up on priority. System specific and costeffective,better management practices (BMPs) incorporating principles ofbiosecurity should be developed, demonstrated and validated.