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The Costs and Benefits of Salmonid Disease Surveillance (2011)
New markets are opening up for Scottish farmed fish, resulting in the intensification of farming and increased production (by up to 50% by 2020). The increased risk of disease outbreaks in future means that fish disease and surveillance are receiving increasing interest from producers and policy-makers alike.
This Briefing reports the results of research which used a cost-benefit approach to evaluate UK public and private spending on disease surveillance for three important diseases. The research highlights two main policy implications: the potential for producers to take more control of disease management; and the potential for insurance cover for producers against losses resulting from a disease outbreak.