Disease-Watch - Aquaculture Awareness Kit

Hi everyone. Well as you are all aware, The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation last year called for tenders to research, produce, distribute and promote a comprehensive training and awareness kit for aquatic animal disease emergencies. Big Time® Media were awarded the contract and have been working hard to develop what has become a comprehensive CD ROM with supporting documentation and a supporting web site that can updated readily.

The Awareness Kit comes as a CD ROM (PC only) or VHS videotape. Background notes are available as PDF documents (available on the CD Rom and also on the supporting Web Site) as well as hard copies for those who do not have a PC to play the CD pr access the Web.

The CD ROM will ‘auto load’ once placed in your CD tray and is packed with video, supporting documents (in PDF format), links to a supporting web site (that mirrors the ‘look and feel’ and the content of the CD ROM so that updates can be made at any time).

The CD Rom has ‘hyperlinks’ to many other web sites and a discussion forum or bulletin Board so that comments can be made for other interested parties about current Aquaculture Disease Awareness Issues.

The videotape holds all the video segments that are found on the CD ROM (for those who do not have access to a PC).

Speakers Notes are available to assist those who may wish to use the kit to teach others or raise awareness of these important issues in a group situation.

The PDF documents (that sit on the CD ROM) can also be printed out and left as handouts to community groups or individual companies.

The address of this Web Site is www.disease-watch.com. This can be accessed directly by ‘jumping’ to it from the CD ROM or by simply typing in the URL into Internet Explorer.

This is available on the Web Site and is a place where information, questions and answers can be "Posted" by anyone interested in the subject for others to read and comment on.

The Fisheries Research and Development Corporation will send updates every month outlining developments with the project and any additional resources that have been placed On Line for your benefit. If you do not wish to remain on this mailing list, please click the remove me now button here or on future monthly updates.

The Awareness CD ROM Kit and the associated Web Site builds on the efforts of both industry and government to date, and looks to assist the continued development of a profitable and sustainable Australian fisheries and aquaculture industry.

Big Time® Media wish to thank the many State & Federal Government and other Peak Body professionals that assisted with their time and advice during the production of this Awareness Kit. Also, the many private & government Aquaculture farms and facilities that kindly allowed us to film on their premises sometimes at very short notice.

The preparation of this awareness kit was made possible by a grant from Australian Government’s Budget Initiative “Building a National Approach to Animal and Plant Health”. The grant was administered by the Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.

Finally, a special thanks to a few individuals who went out of their way to assist with additional file footage or extra photographs drawn from their private collections.

Assistance and Interviews

Barbara Nowak - University of Tasmania School
of Aquaculture (for interview and file footage)

Brian Jeffriess - Tuna Boat Owners Association (for interview and file footage)

Graham Pike - RecFish Australia (for interview and file footage)

Kevin Ellard - Primary Industries, Water & Environment, Tasmania (for interview, extended hospitality and use of stills)

Paul Hardy Smith – Panaquatic Health Solutions (for interview and use of stills)

Russ Neal - Australian Seafood Industry Council (for interview and file footage)
Interviewees
Brett Swan - Gold Coast Marine Aquaculture

Murray Zipf - Rocky Point Prawn Farm

Bruce Zippel - Oyster Farmer - Smoky Bay S.A.

Colin Johnston - Aquatic Animal Health,
Primary Industries & Resources South Australia

Graham Martin - Saltas Pty Ltd

Leigh Owens - James Cook University

Mark Crane - Australian Fish Disease Laboratory
at CSIRO

Michael Borowitzka - Murdoch University

Ray Tynan - Oyster Farmer - Pambula lake, NSW

Robert Adlard - Queensland Museum

Ron Morrison - Southern Ocean Trout

Ron Stagg - FRS Marine Laboratory - Aberdeen,
Scotland

Simon Bennison - National Aquaculture Council

Client Assistance

Eva-Maria Bernoth - Aquatic Animal Health,
Office of the Australian Chief Veterinary Officer (for extraordinary knowledge and vision)

Iain East Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Australia (for the many contacts, understanding and tireless effort in content and project management)

Michael Parolin
Fisheries Research and Development Corporation (for sound advice and helping to keep the project on track)

Kristy Nelson- Fisheries and Forestry
- Australia (for helping to keep the project on track)

Advice and Footage

Dave Ryan – Fisheries Victoria (For advice and file footage)

Peter Rankin - Ocean Wave Seafoods (For advice)

Brett McCallum - Pearl Producers
Association (For advice)

Martin Breen
Australian Prawn Farmers Association (For advice)

Pheroze Jungalwalla - TASSAL (For advice)

Shane Radial Murdoch University (For advice)