08:30 Welcome, acknowledgements and information
08:30 Dr Gillian Taylor Introduction: Fish health and productivity – what’s cooking in our systems?
09:10 Dr Gillian Taylor Water quality: what are we not getting right? (Bring along a water sample from your system to be tested)
10:00 Tea/Coffee
Topics: Fish Health & Diagnostics
10:30 Dr Gillian Taylor. Daily fish health monitoring: what’s healthy and what’s not
10:45 Prof. Wilmien Powell
Microscope/ parasite assessment: equipment and sampling, common parasites Necropsy: how to dissect and collect samples, what to do with them)
10:45 Dr Gillian Taylor/ OPAC Students/ Guest academics
Wet-lab (practical demonstrations and health checks in pathology lab) ( Demo microscopy and
dissection. Farmers will do a parasite assessment, dissect and collect key samples with assistance.)
13:30 LUNCH
Topics: Biosecurity & Disease Impacts
14:30 Dr Gillian Taylor/ Guest academics
Interactive lecture. Current regional diseases of economic concern, impact of disease, and farm biosecurity priorities
15:15 Interactive discussion Questions/ discussion on the day
16:00 Dr Gillian Taylor Closing
16:30 Cocktails at Onderstepoort (Please note change in time)
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