Seafood sector can contribute to the global food supply in an important way, and provide an important source of animal protein. Based on observed regional trends in seafood production and consumption and using a global, partial-equilibrium, multi-market model, this study investigates what the global seafood market may look like in 2030. The model projects that the total fish supply will increase from 154 million tons in 2011 to 186 million tons in 2030, with aquaculture entirely responsible for the increase. The fastest aquaculture growth is expected for tilapia and shrimp, while the largest expansion is expected in India, Latin America and Caribbean and Southeast Asia. Fast-growing seafood demand in China and elsewhere represents a critical opportunity for global fisheries and aquaculture to improve their management and achieve sustainable seafood economy.
Babylonia areolata affected by acute death syndrome exhibits high progression rate and mortality. However, research regarding the host immune response against infection in multiple tissues is limited. In this study, transcriptome sequencing technology was used to explore gene expression differences in the gills, hemolymphocytes, and hepatopancreas following Vibrio tubiashii infection. A total of 1680, 638, and 5610 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were identified in the gills, hemolymphocytes, and hepatopancreas, respectively. The GO and KEGG enrichment analyses showed distinct immune responses in different tissues. The DEGs in the gills were mostly associated with the cytoskeleton, focal adhesion, and ECM - receptor interaction and the DEGs in hemolymphocytes were mainly involved in catalytic activity, immune response, and the peroxisome pathway. The DEGs in the hepatopancreas were significantly enriched in metabolic processes and the lysosome pathway. Additionally, genes involved in the cytoskeleton, NOD-like receptor signaling pathway, and complement and coagulation cascade might play crucial roles in defense across tissues. These results unveiled the specific molecular mechanism of different tissues of B. areolata in response to V. tubiashii infection, and enhanced our understanding of ivory shell antibacterial immunity and disease control.
Morteza Yousefi, Seyyed Morteza Hoseini, Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar
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Abstract Fish transportation is stressful, causing metabolic stress, oxidative stress, and immunosuppression. Dietary additives can boost fish antioxidant and immune responses; hence, using functional feeds can alleviate the negative effects of transportation in fish. In the present study, common carp (33.2 ± 1.72 g) were fed diets containing 5 g/kg of 1,8‐cineole, lactic acid, or their combination for 2 weeks before being transported in plastic bags for 6 h. Ammonia and alkalinity significantly increased after transportation. The fish showed typical stress responses (increase in plasma cortisol, glucose, lactate, and hepatic alanine aminotransferase and aspartate aminotransferase), hyperammonemia, oxidative stress (increase in hepatic superoxide dismutase, catalase, malondialdehyde and decrease in total antioxidant capacity and reduced glutathione levels) and immunosuppression (decrease in plasma, mucus and gut lysozyme and complement activities and decrease in plasma and mucus bactericidal activities) after transportation. Dietary supplementation with either feed additive significantly reversed the adverse effects of transportation on fish. The combination of 1,8‐cineole and lactic acid resulted in the lowest plasma cortisol level and hepatic alanine aminotransferase activity after transportation. This is the first study reporting the efficiency of a short‐term dietary supplementation with 1,8‐cineole and lactic acid in mitigating the negative effects of transportation in common carp. According to the results, adding 5 g/kg of 1,8‐cineole and lactic acid is recommended to suppress transport stress, including oxidative stress and immunosuppression in common carp.
Abstract The US seafood sector is susceptible to shocks, both because of the seasonal nature of many of its domestic fisheries and its global position as a top importer and exporter of seafood. However, many data sets that could inform science and policy during an emerging event do not exist or are only released months or years later. Here, we synthesize multiple data sources from across the seafood supply chain, including unconventional real‐time data sets, to show the relative initial responses and indicators of recovery during the COVID‐19 pandemic. We synthesized news articles from January to September 2020 that reported effects of COVID‐19 on the US seafood sector, including processor closures, shortened fishing seasons and loss of revenue. Concerning production and distribution, we assessed past and present landings and trade data and found substantial declines in fresh seafood catches (−40%), imports (−37%) and exports (−43%) relative to the previous year, while frozen seafood products were generally less affected. Google search trends and seafood market foot traffic data suggest consumer demand for seafood from restaurants dropped by upwards of 70% during lockdowns, with recovery varying by state. However, these declines were partially offset by an increase (270%) in delivery and takeout service searches. Our synthesis of open‐access data sets and media reports shows widespread, but heterogeneous, ramifications of COVID‐19 across the seafood sector, implying that policymakers should focus support on states and sub‐sectors most affected by the pandemic: fishery‐dependent communities, processors, and fisheries and aquaculture that focus on fresh products.
Aquaculture is the fastest‐growing animal production sector, and shrimp production already exceeds that of the capture fishery. Viruses and bacteria account for the majority of disease losses for shrimp farmers. Viral pandemics in the mid 1990s and, more recently, a bacterial pandemic from 2009 to 2015 have led to the conclusion that future, sustainable shrimp aquaculture will depend on the development of more efficient, biosecure production facilities that cultivate specific pathogen‐free (SPF) shrimp, genetically improved for growth and disease tolerance or resistance. Major requirements for development, maintenance, and use of SPF stocks in aquaculture are effective pathogen surveillance and disease prevention methods. When protective measures fail and diseases occur in production ponds, there are currently only a few approved and practical therapeutic methods available for use with bacterial pathogens and none so far for viral pathogens. To improve existing methods of prevention and therapy and to develop new ones, research is being carried out on the nature of shrimp–pathogen interactions. Promising results have been obtained at the laboratory level for possible applications involving the use of immunostimulants for “immune priming” or “trained immunity” of RNA interference and of endogenous viral elements. Some of these promising new directions are discussed.
The impediment of inadequate shrimp gonad development has adversely affected their production in the aquaculture sector. One promising strategy to enhance the quality and timing of offspring for commercial purposes is the regulation of their reproductive activity. Nevertheless, the availability of information pertaining to ovarian development in Fenneropenaeus penicillatus remains limited. To address this knowledge gap, our study employed a multi-faceted approach, integrating cutting-edge technologies such as Iso-seq, RNA-seq, RT-qPCR, histological and morphological observations. The Iso-seq generating 81,964,598 subreads with an average length of 1600 bp. This effort yielded 926,713 CCS reads and 557,043 FLNC reads, culminating in a robust set of 16,587 non-redundant full-length transcripts. This study utilized CPC, CPAT, PLEK, and pfam, to predict the numbers of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). The outcomes were as follows: 5204, 4478, 7055, and 8175 lncRNAs, respectively. Our findings unveiled the intricate molecular underpinnings of ovarian development, encompassing pivotal pathways such as oocyte meiosis, insulin signaling pathway, oxytocin signaling pathway, progesterone-mediated oocyte maturation, estrogen signaling pathway, and GnRH signaling pathway. Notably, we identified specific genes—including Vtg, VgR, Sxl4, UCH, Hsp70, PP1, CDK2, Rheb, MKK3, and CDC42—that exhibited dynamic expression patterns during ovarian development. This study has produced a comprehensive dataset of full-length transcripts that holds significant potential as a genomic reference for future research on F. penicillatus. Furthermore, these insights may substantially contribute to the advancement of artificial breeding techniques and the ongoing development of sustainable aquaculture practices for F. penicillatus.
The heavy reliance of most global aquaculture on the ambient environment suggests inherent vulnerability to climate change effects. This review explores the potential effects of climate change stressors on aquaculture biology and resources needed to support decision-making for vulnerability assessment, planned adaptation, and strategic research development. Climate change-mediated physiochemical outcomes important to aquaculture include extreme weather, precipitation and surge-based flooding, water stress, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, saltwater intrusion, and changes to temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen. Culture practices, environment, and region affect stressor exposure, and biological response between species or populations are not universal. Response to a climate change stressor will be a function of where changes occur relative to optimal ranges and tolerance limits of an organism’s life stage and physiological processes; the average magnitude of the stressor over the production cycle; stressor rate of change; variation, frequency, duration, and magnitude of extremes; epigenetic expression, genetic strain, and variation within and between populations; health and nutrition; and simultaneous stressor occurrence. The effects of simultaneous stressors will frequently interact, but may not be fully additive or synergistic. Disease is a major aquaculture limiter, and climate change is expected to further affect plant and animal health through the host and/or infectious agents. Climate change may introduce further complexity to the aquaculture−wild fishery relationship, with over two-thirds of animal aquaculture production dependent on external feed inputs. Higher production costs could be an economic outcome of climate change for many aquaculture sectors. Some aquaculture practices may inadvertently reduce resiliency to climate change, such as a reduction of coastal vegetation, coastal ground-water pumping, and reduction of population variability in pursuit of consistent production traits. Information from the largest aquaculture producers such as China and the top 3 global culture species is still sparse in the literature. This potentially limits thorough understanding of climate change effects on some regional aquaculture sectors.
Abstract The European Union (EU) is the world’s largest market for fishery and aquaculture products (FAPs) in nominal terms. Given the importance of these products, EU authorities and policy-makers are continuously monitoring consumer preferences and attitudes, analysing whether or not the implementation of EU policies and regulations improves the market conditions. For example, the Eurobarometer (European Union, 2018a ) surveyed 27732 EU residents including a specific module to analyse the fishery and aquaculture EU market. In this study, the dataset is used to estimate Ordered Probit models using effects coding and their marginal effects to identify the main determinants of the frequency of FAPs at-home consumption. Results indicate that the highest probability to consume more frequently FAPs is related to considering that one of the main reasons for buying or eating fishery and aquaculture products is because they are healthy, while the highest probability to consume less frequently FAPs is related to consumers who do not understand at all the information accompanying the products. Similarly, other important reasons for consuming FAPs more frequently are their good taste and low relative price. Also, results indicate a higher frequency of consumption of FAPs for those consumers who are over 55 years of age, are wealthy, have a wild product preference, live in a household of 3 persons or more and are very satisfied with their lives. To our best knowledge, there is not a similar approach in the current literature that considers such an extensive sample which is representative of all the countries that conformed the EU28. Results provide valuable information especially for producers and authorities in terms of marketing and policy analysis.
As aquaculture continues to grow, so does the requirement for environmentally sustainable and cost-effective aquafeed. With an expected increase in aquafeed demand, it is important (now more than ever) to investigate and utilize new aquafeed ingredients that do not deplete natural resources and, instead, may have positive impacts to help control climate change. Aquaculture has become the largest consumer of global fishmeal (FM) and fish oil (FO) production, accounting for 68% and 89%, respectively (Hua et al. 2019). At the same time, most modern aquafeed are now predominantly composed of terrestrial plant materials and animal by-products [in this issue, you can find a fascinating article describing how aquafeed have evolved and the consequent call for rethinking trophic levels in aquaculture policies (Cottrell et al. 2021)]. This puts heavy reliance on terrestrial agriculture products, which have their own sustainability issues, such as freshwater use, deforestation, areal footprint, pesticide and fertilizer use, irrigation and polluting runoff. Furthermore, the use of terrestrial crops in aquafeed directly compete with human food streams. Besides, many of the terrestrial plant ingredients present certain nutritional challenges for farmed aquatic species. Climate change can exacerbate the situation, hampering the ability to produce crops consistently, in extreme and increasingly unpredictable conditions, and jeopardizing the long-term sustainability of marine products harvesting. The supply, cost, environmental sustainability and social acceptability of raw materials for aquafeed are under threat. The direct consequences for aquafeed, and with a snowball effect, the consequences for global aquaculture economic viability, environmental sustainability and social license to operate are significant. As a result, the industry must develop innovative practices that involve conservation, restoration and/ or remediation. This presents new opportunities for nextgeneration protein and lipid sources for aquafeed that will be more resilient and consistent, in our changing and seemingly unstable world. One such opportunity is the production of nutritional resources that are created through the circular bioeconomy. This encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and converting these resources and their byproducts and waste streams into value-added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy. It is all about valorization – and keeping the value of biomass cascading. The extensive organic biomass and waste streams from agriculture, forestry, fisheries, food and feed and organic processing waste should be integrated into a circular, bioeconomy strategy. It also creates opportunities to link very different industries, which is a unique strength of the bioeconomy concept. This allows for greater diversification and resilience, with the ultimate goal of using renewable natural resources to achieve a sustainable balance in food production and ecological conservation. Of course, this demands innovations, new technologies, knowledgebased processes and new applications, as well as a cultural shift. Efforts towards a climateand ecology-positive economy in aquafeed production will mean moving further away from traditional wild-harvested FM and FO and agricultural crops, shifting towards ingredients produced through the circular bioeconomy. This also has the potential to result in locally sourced aquafeed ingredients, which can reduce transport-related greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions and costs, fuel local economies, create new jobs and overall are more socially accepted and environmentally sustainable. From their infancy, the evolution of aquafeed from being mostly FM and FO-based, to become primarily terrestrialbased, which are the current aquafeed and could be termed ‘Aquafeed 2.0’, has occurred rapidly; essentially within the last 20 years (Cottrell et al. 2021). It is time now to conceive, plan and develop ‘Aquafeed 3.0’. We envisage that Aquafeed 3.0 will use ingredients produced through the circular bioeconomy, which can improve aquaculture’s sustainability by reducing its environmental footprint in terms of water and land use, CO2 conversion, GHG emissions, nutrient recycling and wastewater remediation. Aquafeed 3.0 will be based on raw materials that are nutritionally superior and closer to the natural diet of many carnivorous aquatic species than the terrestrial plant and animal by-products currently being used. There are already several examples of new aquafeed ingredients that are produced through circular bioeconomy frameworks, such as insects, microbial single-celled organisms, seaweeds and fishery and aquaculture processing byproducts. Moreover, we like to think that many others are just waiting to be discovered. Single-celled organisms, such as microalgae, yeasts, bacteria and fungal protists, can utilize environmentally
Collagens are the most abundant extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins, which play important role in maintaining muscle texture of fish. Appropriate enhancement of tissue collagen deposition would improve quality of fish products. However, the regulatory mechanism of tissue collagen deposition remains poorly understood in fish. Here, we reported a comparative investigation on collagen deposition, transcriptional profile of collagen and their regulatory genes between muscle and swim bladder in zebrafish. Moreover, the function of key regulatory genes was investigated in vitro. Results indicated that collagen content in swim bladder was much higher than that in muscle. Transcriptome analysis identified 7351 differentially expressed genes and enrichment of ECM-related functional terms. The expression level of 26 collagen genes was significantly higher in swim bladder, including 5 of 8 highly-expressed genes (col1a1a, col1a2, etc.). Besides, most putative collagen regulatory genes (20/24) have higher expression level in swim bladder. Protein-protein interaction network analysis indicated that mmp2, p3h, ctgfa, serpinh1a have close interaction with col1 genes (col1a1a, col1a2). Over-expression of ctgfa and serpinh1a significantly promoted transcription of col1 genes and increased collagen I content in zebrafish fibroblast. It’s concluded that transcriptional signature of collagen genes varies between tissues and is differentially regulated by collagen regulators. Our data provides novel insights into the regulatory mechanism of tissue collagen metabolism and key molecular targets for regulating collagen deposition in fish during aquaculture practice.
زینب حاجیانی, رسول قربانی, سید علی اکبر هدایتی
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هدف از مطالعه حاضر بررسی برخی پارامترهای پویایی جمعیت خرچنگ Austruca iranica در سواحل شمالی جزیره قشم از بهمن 1397 تا دی 1398 بود. از مجموع 551 نمونه خرچنگ گرفته شده (327 عدد نر و 224 عدد ماده) نسبت جنسی 5/1:1 بهدست آمد (01/0 P<). حداقل، حداکثر و میانگین عرض کاراپاس (±انحراف معیار) برای جنس نر 89/1، 04/17 و 34/2 ± 9/10 میلیمتر و برای جنس ماده 56/3، 59/16 و 36/2 ± 61/10 میلیمتر بدست آمد. همچنین میانگین وزنی (±انحراف معیار) خرچنگهای نر و ماده به ترتیب 65/0 ± 86/0 (با دامنه 72/2-009/0) و 32/0 ± 58/0 (با دامنه 97/1-02/0) گرم محاسبه شد. رابطه عرض کاراپاس-وزن بدن برای جنس نر W=0.0005CW^2.98 و برای جنس ماده W=0.0009CW^2.69 بهدست آمد. خرچنگهای نر و ماده به ترتیب دارای الگوی رشد ایزومتریک و آلومتریک منفی بودند. پارامترهای معادله رشد وان برتالنفی به صورت 58/22= CW∞ میلیمتر، 79/0=k در سال و 22/0-= t0 سال برآورد شد. نرخ مرگ و میر کل و حداکثر طول عمر به ترتیب 64/3 در سال و 6/3 سال بهدست آمد. کمترین، بیشترین و میانگین (±انحراف معیار) میزان همآوری به ترتیب 2953، 15038 و 3515 ± 7946 عدد تخم شمارش گردید. اندازه عرض کاراپاس مادهها در زمان بلوغ جنسی 7/9 میلیمتر برآورد شد. نتایج بدست آمده به شناخت بهتر ویژگیهای زیستی این گونه در جهت حفظ آن کمک خواهد کرد. همچنین با توجه به ارزش اکولوژیک بالای این گونه و نقش آن در زنجیره غذایی، از اطلاعات پایه بدست آمده می-توان در مدیریت ماهیگیری با رویکرد اکوسیستم محور استفاده کرد.
Abstract Aquaculture production has grown rapidly in Nigeria but with unbridled use of antibiotics which predisposes fish consumers to the risks of antimicrobial residues and resistance. A cross sectional survey of antimicrobial use in aquaculture and occurrence of their residues in African Catfish (Clarias gariepinus) samples from Southwestern states of Nigeria were carried out. The results showed that majority of the farmers lacked knowledge of drug residues in aquatic animals, and the food safety and public health implications on consumers. Frequently administered antibiotics include tetracyclines (27.5%), chloramphenicol (22.0%) and gentamicin (18.4%). About 84.7% of tested fish had residues with variable prevalence which were not statistically significant. Risk factor analysis indicated that fish farmers with tertiary and secondary education were more likely to produce fish that contained antimicrobial residues than those with primary education [odds ratio (OR) = 1.91, confidence interval (CI) = 1.24–5.99 and OR = 1.25, CI = 1.08–5.27, respectively] while fish from farms managed by men were about three times more likely to contain residues (OR = 3.25, 95% CI = 1.95–9.35) than those managed by women. Hence, most of the fish from Southwestern Nigeria were indiscriminately dosed with different antibiotics that predispose consumers to the risks of antimicrobial residues with food safety and antimicrobial resistance consequences. Implementation of good fishery management practices and farmers' education are advocated to reduce dependence on antimicrobials.
Abstract This paper analyses the operational efficiency of fish farming across EU Member States using a two-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. In the first stage, a non-oriented Slacks-Based Measure of efficiency (SBM) DEA model is used to compute efficiency scores in marine and freshwater finfish and shellfish aquaculture subsectors for different EU countries during the period 2014–2016. In a second stage, these scores are processed by standard, censored and fractional regression models to test the effects of some exogenous variables. Between 57% and 74% of the observations, depending on the subsector considered, were efficient. The average technical efficiency was 0.918 for freshwater finfish, 0.885 for marine finfish and 0.802 for shellfish. Extending the best practices to the inefficient countries would involve a reduction of feed costs (2.9% - 4.3%), livestock costs (9.0% - 11.8%), energy costs (2.4% - 25.3%), repairing costs (3.7% - 13.8%) and other operating costs (4.3% - 13.8%)at the same time that an improvement in production value totalling 0.03% for freshwater finfish, 2.13% for marine finfish and 0.37% for shellfish. As regards productivity change in the period under study, there has been a productivity regress in the case of freshwater finfish, productivity increase in the case of marine finfish and an initial productivity increase between 2014 and 2015 followed by a slight decrease between 2015 and 2016 in the case of shellfish. Results also indicate that countries specializing in cultivating freshwater and marine populations are more likely to be on the efficient frontier and that technical efficiency seems to be influenced by the size of the country's gross domestic product and capture fisheries.
Abstract The study has produced a single, powerful finding: the fish value chain in Bangladesh is growing and transforming very rapidly, in all segments. (1) The quiet revolution in the fish value chain is a domestic market revolution: 94% of aquaculture production is destined for domestic consumption. (2) The farmed fish market grew by a factor of 25 times in three decades to nearly 2 million tons today. At most 10% of farmed fish are home-consumed, the rest are marketed. 42% of marketed farmed fish is consumed in urban areas and that share is growing fast. (3) There has been a tripling of volumes and actors in all the segments of the value chain over the past decade. (4) There has been rapid capital deepening in the form of investments by hundreds of thousands of actors in the fish value chain; apparent in a great jump in feed use, investment in equipment and pond construction, and investments in mills, hatcheries and vehicles. These investments have been made by, and provided opportunities for, a multitude of smallholder farmers and small and medium enterprises throughout the chain. (5) There has been diversification and specialization beyond carps into production of commercial species such as tilapia and pangasius catfish, which have raised yields and helped to move the fisheries sector along the “product cycle.” (6) So far the quiet revolution is driven by increase in demand, improvement in infrastructure, and investments by small-scale actors apart from large feed mills. Very little change is due to imposition of standards and contracts, or NGO or government action (except initial government support at the earliest stages in the 1980s). The most important policy has been infrastructure investment, good business environment, and laissez faire policy in terms of crop choice of farmers. Statement of relevance This study focuses on the transformation of aquaculture in Bangladesh, a dynamic sector that has been driven by investments of hundreds of thousands of mainly small actors in the fish value chain. Investments that have bolstered the diversification beyond the production of carps, into production of new commercial species, raising yields and then reducing the price of consumed fish over time.
Cesar SANTOS, Roberto SCHWARZ JUNIOR, Helen Audrey PICHLER
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The composition and structure of fish assemblages in the inner continental shelf of the Paraná State are affected by cold fronts and the rainfall regime. Data from fishing activities in this region, as well as the analysis of environmental characteristics, are the main tools available for understanding fish dynamics, under influence of increasing human activities. In order to better understand patterns and temporal variations in fish assemblages in the inner continental shelf of the Paraná State, a total of 24 double trawls were performed with an otter trawl between August 2000 and July 2001, in two sampling areas, the North area in front of the northern mouth of the Paranaguá Estuary Complex, and the South area, in front of the Leste beach. A total of 45,277 fish specimens belonging to 35 families and 97 species were caught. Sciaenidae was the most abundant family, with 37.1% of the total number of individuals caught, and with the highest richness (18 species). Statistical analyses evidenced significant differences in environmental characteristics and in fish fauna, and that both areas disturbances were observed in the fish assemblages during the dry and wet season, being more intense in the Southern area, disturbances that would be related to the shrimp fishing present in the two areas sampled in this study.
Sicydiinae species are amphidromous gobies, adults spawn in freshwater, whereas free embryos undergo a pelagic open sea phase. Post-larvae or juveniles are caught for human consumption when entering in freshwater after their pelagic larvae life in sea-water. Such goby-fry fisheries are existing since centuries and widespread in tropical areasovertheworld.Thereareuncertaintiesrelatedtocaughtvolumesandtrendsbut, overall, go-fry fisheries are declining and their sustainability is questionable. Aquacul-ture is a potential tool in conservation and management of wild goby stocks. Among Sicydiinae species, the red-tailed goby Sicyopterus lagocephalus is the most spread and used as a model species in numerous works involving amphidromous fish. The aim of the study was to evaluate the potential in aquaculture of the red-tailed goby through the analysis of the literature available on this species. We found that this species has some assets to be a potential candidate for aquaculture such as a short production cycle and a high fecundity as well as potential high market values. Nevertheless, given the small size at hatching and the long pelagic larval life, larval rearing is likely to be a challenging rearing phase but appears to be feasible based on past experiences with other goby species. Throughout the paper, we provided recommendations for future research in red-tailed goby aquaculture.
The Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources, in order to address the issue on antimicrobial resistance (AMR), actively participated in the efforts of the Department of Health in response to the call of the Tripartite Collaboration on AMR, i.e. the World Health Organization, the World Organisation for Animal Health and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to develop country National Action Plans on AMR using the One Health approach to promote best practices to avoid the emergence and spread of AMR. Thus, “The Philippine National Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance: One Health Approach” (PNAP) has evolved and continuously being improved. At present, studies on AMR and antimicrobial use in the Philippine aquatic sector are very limited. The BFAR participated in the FAO project FMM/RAS/298 Strengthening Capacities, Policies and National Action Plans on Prudent and Responsible Use of Antimicrobials in Fisheries which enhanced the understanding of AMR in aquaculture and laboratory capacity. As part of the project, a survey on the use of antimicrobials in Philippine aquaculture was conducted. Eighty four respondents from the shrimp and tilapia farming sectors and two aquaculture product suppliers participated. Results showed that antibiotics are no longer applied in participating grow-out farms monitored for residues and there has been no detection of antibiotics in shrimp or fish meat from registered farms. About 77 % of the respondents know the regulations on the use of antimicrobials and the majority of them are aware of banned and regulated antibiotics in food animals.