Crimean fish farmers will start vaccinating fish fry to prevent diseases in Ukraine

The Black Sea, Aquaculture fish farm in the Dzhankoy district of the Republic of Crimea will begin vaccinating trout fry using an innovative submersible method to prevent diseases, the company's chief fish farmer Nikolai Semukov told TASS. As the specialist explained, fish on the farms are often susceptible to bacterial and parasitic diseases. Currently, fish farmers treat fish after they have already fallen ill. Treatment is carried out by mixing antibiotics with food during feeding. "At the fry stage, when the fish are transferred from the incubator to the pool, we vaccinate using the immersion method. A certain amount of vaccine is poured into the water, so the fish recovers from the disease and, when it goes to sea and grows to a commercial size, it is no longer sick. This is one of the innovative methods. In particular, it is good because the drugs are quickly eliminated from the body. If you give the medicine to already sick fish, the antibiotics are eliminated longer. And ...