Date: November 11, 2022
Time: 11:00a -12:00p PST
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Growers and hatchery managers know the challenges of getting seed, and how complicated and costly this can get with state regulations, which usually require individual batch testing to provide assurance of biosecurity, freedom from pathogens or diseases, for interstate transfers. Batch testing is laborious, time consuming and expensive and does not stop animals from acquiring pathogens while testing is being performed. Batch testing, on its own, is not informative with regards to the history of biosecurity of a hatchery or measures to ensure or validate biosecurity protocols. To both improve biosecurity of shellfish seed transfers and reduce unnecessary hurdles to the shellfish aquaculture industry, we created the Regional Shellfish Seed Biosecurity Program (RSSBP) as a collaboration among members of the shellfish aquaculture industry, shellfish scientists and pathologists, state regulators, and extension professionals.
Dr. David Bushek is a shellfish pathologist at Rutgers University where he directs the Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory and oversee the shellfish pathology lab. He is a Professor in the Department of Marine and Coastal Science and holds a bachelor’s degree in zoology from Ohio State, a Master’s in biology from the University of Houston, and a doctorate in Ecology and Evolution from Rutgers. Following his doctoral work, he spent 10 years at the University of South Carolina working on the ecology and pathology of oysters along the South Carolina coast before returning to Rutgers. He teaches Aquaculture at the Haskin Lab which operates both a research hatchery and commercial production hatchery as well as a shellfish farm with nursery and growout capacity. He is most known for his expertise on Dermo disease and is co-leading the effort to improve biosecurity of shellfish seed transfers for aquaculture while facilitating a more straightforward and streamlined system of commerce.
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