Aapqis

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AAPQIS is a project of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Aquaculture Department (FIMA). AAPQIS is designed to provide information on aquaculture development and aquatic animal biosecurity issues of relevance to national policy-makers concerned with aquaculture and aquatic biosecurity, aquatic animal heath experts (including national competent authorities) and the general aquaculture community... The recent developments towards less restrictive trade, particularly through memberships in the World Trade Organization (WTO), have expanded international trade in live aquatic animals and their products. At the same time, this rapidly evolving situation has left policy-makers in many countries with the dilemma of how to reap the economic and social benefits of free trade while at the same time protecting national biodiversity; existing capture fisheries and aquaculture; human, animal and plant health and national and local economies and social systems from the sometimes devastating impacts caused by exotic diseases and pathogens that are spread by poorly regulated trade in live aquatic animals. AAPQIS was thus conceived and dedicated to providing an easily accessible, Web-based, entry point for access to information on aquatic animal biosecurity.

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