Aquaculture America 2021

August 11 - 14, 2021

San Antonio, Texas

FORTY YEARS OF FLUCTUATION IN THE OCCURRENCE OF TWO VARIOUS METAZOAN PARASITES: Contracaecum multipapillatum (NEMATODA) AND Digenean metacercaria N1 IN WARM WATER FISH CULTURE IN THE ISRAELI FARMS

Tetsuzan Benny Ron*, Margarita Smirnov, Tamir Ofek
 
Central Fish Health Laboratory, Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Nir David, 1080300 Israel
 

We present field observation results from October 2019 to February 2021 in Israeli fish farms. Surprisingly, two   metazoan   parasites, the   larvae   of Contracaecum multipapillatum and unidentified metacercaria N1, which disappeared from Israeli fish farming 30 years ago, were commonly found in the current study. The reappearance of these two helminths is likely related to changes in the management policy related to new regulations regarding bird-of-prey species. It means that farmers could  have prevented parasitic infections by keeping away piscivorous birds from their fish ponds and by treating  these  ponds  with  appropriate  compounds against  the affected invertebrates.