Management Tools and Infrastructure
Developing Trade
For any country intending to expand its fish and shellfish farming industry a number of controls and standards have to be put in place.
We advise on increasing international trade through a number of areas:
- setting and meeting import and export standards and controls
- managing human health risks from consumption of aquaculture products
- formulating and implementing legislation to control aquaculture and fish diseases
- health certification analysis advice
- international regulation compliance
- specific advice on EU quality and safety import requirements
- policy development advice
Control Programmes
Cefas is responsible for undertaking the UK statutory programme of annual investigation, monitoring and enforcement of controls in fish and shellfish operations.
We use our long-standing and well-established expertise in fish inspection and health certification systems to give advice on implementing statutory and mandatory control programmes. Our expertise relates to wild and farmed stocks in both marine and freshwater environments.
Information Systems
We develop flexible Information Technology data management systems to support aquaculture industries and their governance.
Our systems help:
- enforce legislation
- control unregulated or inappropriate fish movements
- manage disease outbreaks, pollution incidents, etc.
- provide regulatory information and advice to all parties
The UK Live Fish Movements database and website is an award winning example of an integrated system that gives different regulatory bodies’ multi-site access to a shared database covering live fish transfers, fish health and fish farm registration.
This system was designed and implemented by Cefas for a consortium of UK government bodies.
The system also provides access to information on regulations for fish movements and access to applications for fish transfers, imports and farm registration for fishery owners, fish farmers and importers.
