Aquatic diseases

PIRSA protects South Australia's valuable fishing and aquaculture industries through:

  • disease prevention measures
  • livestock movement restrictions
  • disease surveillance
  • disease outbreak preparation.

Identifying aquatic animal diseases

Everyone can help our fisheries and aquaculture sectors by learning to look for the signs of disease in finfish, molluscs, crustaceans, and amphibians.

Use the national Aquatic Animal Diseases Significant to Australia: Identification Field Guide, intended to help:

  • commercial fishers
  • aquaculture workers
  • recreational fishers
  • quarantine staff
  • scientists
  • conservationists
  • students.

Aquatic diseases of concern to SA

Read more information about Abalone biosecurity standards.

See the full list of notifiable diseases and learn about reporting animal disease.

Page last reviewed: 06 Apr 2023

 


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