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Fisheries colleges in the country will introduce aquatic medicine in their curriculum from the next academic year, according to KM Shankar, Dean of the Mangaluru-based College of Fisheries.
Speaking to Business Line on the sidelines of a 15-day training programme on ‘aquatic medicine’ for in-service personnel from State governments and universities here on Monday, Shankar said the vice-chancellors of 20 fisheries colleges in the country have agreed to introduce aquatic medicine as a subject in their syllabus at a meeting conducted by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) recently.
Advantage The introduction of aquatic medicine as a subject will enable BFSc (Bachelor of Fisheries Sciences) graduates to prescribe medicines for aquatic animals. At present, veterinarians are prescribing medicines for aquatic animals.
Aquatic medicine curriculum includes pharmacology and toxicology.
College of Fisheries here has taken the lead in this direction. It has already developed monoclonal antibodies for the detection of antibiotic residues in fishes. It has also carried out research on pharmacokinetics of antibiotics in shrimps.
Expressing concern over the use of antibiotics, drugs, chemicals and pesticides in aqua-farming, he said the use of these materials in aqua-farming is not regulated properly. The mode of action of pharmacokinetics of drugs or antibiotics in aquatic animals is entirely different from other animals, he said.
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