Enhancing incentives for disease control in aquaculture: a research agenda
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Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Norway
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2
Lincoln University, New Zealand
Infectious diseases continue to affect the productivity, efficiency and consumer confidence of the aquaculture industry. This suggests that disease control remains an important area for further policy development. At the same time and contrary to terrestrial livestock enterprises, where economic incentive mechanisms have been proposed to influence behavior change in order to achieve the goals of disease control policies, the use of such incentive programs to achieve such aims within the aquaculture sector are largely underdeveloped. While much can be learnt from terrestrial livestock production, several technical and institutional features of aquaculture production could influence the design of potentially appropriate incentive programs. This presentation will discuss the important features of aquaculture production in relation to incentive mechanism design and provide examples of potential fit-for-purpose programs for infectious disease control in an aquaculture setting.
Keywords:
incentives,
Disease control,
Aquaculture,
policy development,
salmonids
Conference:
AquaEpi I - 2016, Oslo, Norway, 20 Sep - 22 Sep, 2016.
Presentation Type:
Oral
Topic:
Aquatic Animal Epidemiology
Citation:
Jansen
MD and
Rich
KM
(2016). Enhancing incentives for disease control in aquaculture: a research agenda.
Front. Vet. Sci.
Conference Abstract:
AquaEpi I - 2016.
doi: 10.3389/conf.FVETS.2016.02.00001
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Received:
27 May 2016;
Published Online:
14 Sep 2016.
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Correspondence:
Dr. Mona D Jansen, Norwegian Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway, mona-dverdal.jansen@vetinst.no