Aquaculture 2022

February 28 - March 4, 2022

San Diego, California

DEVELOPING A MOBILE RESPONSIVE CLINICAL FISH HEALTH DATABASE

Tyler J. McKay*, Tifani W. McKay, Ashmita Poudel, and Robert M. Durborow

Aquaculture Research Center

 Kentucky State University

 Frankfort, KY, 40601

 Tyler.mckay@kysu.edu

 



This project outlines the development of a clinical database for fish diseases that will allow fish professionals and veterinarians to track, record, and visualize fish disease outbreaks on their desktop or mobile device . The  database and associated mobile responsive site are designed by APAX Software located in Lexington, Kentucky. Some primary functions of the database  include: the ability to track treatment methods, water quality, population estimates, stockings events, mortality events, and record if the treatment was successful. The data entry fields are tailored to fish disease with the planned capability to filter and search by any field on user’s diagnostics reports . P reliminary data has been collected from Kentucky State University’s Fish Disease Diagnostic Laboratory, which include photographs and video footage compiled over the past 31 years of the laboratory’s operation and will be linked to Oregon State University’s educational website for fish diseases, www.fishpathogens.net . This supplemental mat erial will be accessible to the public and used as an educational tool designed to inform fish farmers of possible fish diseases with example images and pathogen descriptions .  The long-term goal is to  create  a database that  will exceed the capabilities of a non-tailored entry system with data entry and searchability fields specific to fish disease that can be exported into several different formats for statistical analysis.