The Shrimp Summit at RSS • Sept. 23, 2026 • Bangkok, Thailand
Health Management
Major advances in health management have begun to transform how the shrimp industry approaches disease prevention and control. This session will explore the evolution from pathogen-focused strategies toward comprehensive health management systems that combine disease exclusion through Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) stocks with improved tolerance through Specific Pathogen Tolerant (SPT) approaches. Emerging tools such as epigenetic conditioning, rapid field diagnostics, bacteriophage applications, and next-generation vaccines offer additional opportunities to strengthen shrimp health. The session will also review how production practices—including site selection, facility design, water exchange, carrying capacity, and stress management—are increasingly recognized as disease risk factors. The role of regulatory frameworks will also be explored.
BIOTEC
CP Foods
Kytos
One Health
Victoria Alday-Sanz is a veterinarian with an M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Stirling University (UK). She has worked for over 35 years on diverse aspects of shrimp and fish biosecurity covering research on pathogens and diseases, diagnostics, sanitary legislation, health management, development of SPF stocks and syndromic surveillance. She has collaborated as an expert for international organizations such as FAO, WOAH, EU, EFSA and WB as well as with the private sector.
Alday-Sanz has lived and work in Southeast Asia, Middle East and Latin America and published over 35 papers in peer review journals, over 50 articles in industry magazines, 5 book chapters, is co-author of the CD-rom Diagnosis of Shrimp Diseases and editor of The Shrimp Book I and II. She was director for Aquaculture Biosecurity for Pescanova where she led the development of a population of “reverse SPF” shrimp (Specific Pathogen Free and Specific Pathogen Tolerant stocks).
Presently, she is the Director for Biosecurity, Breeding programs and Research and Development for the National Aquaculture Group of Saudi Arabia.
