About AquamedicineBy Trygve T. Poppe, Professor
The main facilities of the two institutions are located on the Adamstua campus in Oslo.The Norwegian School of Veterinary Science and the National Veterinary Institute have a long tradition in health surveillance,diagnostic work and treatment of fish, shellfish and crustaceans. The first doctoral thesis on a fish health-related topic was presented by Dr. Carl S. Aaser in 1924 on the Pike plague in Lake Mjøsa. Since the mid-sixties, fish health surveillance has been an integrated part of the diagnostic services of the National Veterinary Institute and fish health has become an important part of the curriculum at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science. More than 40 doctoral dissertations covering different aspects of fish and shellfish health have been presented from 1977 to the present date (2003). Currently, more than 80 scientists at the two institutions work full-time or part-time with health surveillance, diagnostics and disease-related research in fish and shellfish. Since 2000, scientists from both institutions working within the abovementioned disciplines have been loosely organised in the Aquamedicine group. The present website is the direct result of this consolidation and the aim of the group is to make aquamedicine an important pillar of the Adamstua campus. With long traditions in surveillance and diagnostics in terrestrial animals, the two institutions can apply a unique comparative medical approach and diagnostic methods originally developed for human or veterinary medicine to many of the disease problems in modern aquaculture have successfully been introduced in fish medicine as well. |
The
aim of the present website is to provide a full presentation of
Aquamedicine activities, staff, publications, services and
research projects related to health, welfare and food safety of
wild and farmed aquatic organisms at the two major veterinary institutions
in Norway;