The COVID-19 pandemic has been challenging for the hotel industry, with rooms being converted into quarantine centres and leading to an increase in waste volume and composition. With frequent lockdowns and stringent guidelines by governments on social distancing, 60% of hotels converted 10% of...

The effects of climate change on cage-cultured fishes are highlighted and on the importance of increasing concern by the public on fish welfare.

This chapter focuses on the sublethal (or non-lethal) impacts in fish from exposure to commonly occurring toxins produced by harmful algal blooms (HABs). Some information on the diseases and disorders in finfish resulting from sublethal (or non-lethal) exposure to marine and freshwater toxins...

This chapter examines the dynamic interaction of infectious agent movements between farmed and sympatric wild finfish populations. The factors contributing to infection, amplification, spread and occurence of infectious disease as a consequence of this interactions are likewise highlighted. Lastly, ...

This chapter reviews some recent, emerging issues in finfish culture, highlighting some environmental pollutants, infectious diseases and problems associated with the use of antimicrobials that have surfaced in the last decade and are anticipated to worsen with climate change.

In this chapter, the primary disease problems that affects different life stages of freshwater fish reared in a variety of water sources (ranging from groundwater and springs to rivers, lakes, and reservoirs) are highlighted.

The long-term sustainability of a culture collection, a biological resource centre (BRC), will require the generation of a robust business plan. The previous chapters have demonstrated that there are many aspects to running a culture collection, it is not simply the preservation of cultures and...

The recommendations given in this book chapter describes how to manage a culture collection and handle microorganisms in the lab while also creating a secure atmosphere that complies with standards. Microorganisms are managed, grown, shared, used, and stored by a large number of companies...

This chapter provides information to help users select the best preservation method for microorganisms (bacteria and fungi) and the protocols to do this. The methods such as centrifugal (spin) freeze-drying and single phase shelf freeze-drying, materials for recovery, preservation of other...

This chapter covers the different aspects of culture collections and their quality management systems including: (1) why retain microorganisms; (2) roles of culture collections; (3) issues affecting culture collections; (4) culture collection accession policy and criteria; (5) culture collection...