Aquaculture 2025

March 6 - 10, 2025

New Orleans, Louisiana USA

COORDINATING SHRIMP DISEASE SURVEILLANCE TESTING FOR STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS TO REDUCE REDUNDENT TESTING EXPENSES FOR HAWAII’S SPF BROODSTOCK PRODUCERS

Micah C. Brodsky*

Hawai?i Department of Agriculture

Animal Industry Division

99-941 Halwa Valley Street

Aiea, HI 96701

 



The Hawaiʻi Shrimp Health Certification Program (SHCP), is administered by the Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture. The disease surveillance and biosecurity practices upon which the program is based were initiated in the early 1980’s when intensive shrimp culture began to be explored in earnest in Hawaiʻi. The SHCP’s disease surveillance guidelines are based on the World Organization for Animal Health’s (OIE) aquatic animal health code; as is also the case for the USDA administered program for shrimp. The state and federal programs are both voluntary, and periodically require updates or changes. Despite significant programmatic overlap and both programs being based on the same WOAH framework, there are some differences between the programs that can lead to confusion about regulatory compliance requirements (such as specific disease surveillance testing needs, document submission, etc.). By working closely with colleagues at the federal level and with producers, we effectively reduced redundant testing by coordinating the timing of disease surveillance testing for the state program with what the producers needed to maintain compliance under the federal program.