Live Fish Movements Database

This award winning system developed by Cefas is an interactive tool to prevent and control the spread of serious fish diseases.

Disease Contact Control - a shared database facilitates rapid response and follow up, so preventing the spread of serious disease.

The database is shared by the four organisations in England and Wales responsible for live fish transfer legislation (Defra, the Environment Agency, the Welsh Assembly, and Cefas).

The database facilitates a joined-up government approach to fish movement controls containing all the relevant information on:

• Fish Farm registration and inspection
• Fish movements (farms and inland waters)
• Fish imports from the EU and from third countries
• Export certification
• Disease testing
• The keeping of non-native fish

Key System Features

• Separate interfaces for each organisation – allowing closely controlled security access
• Data organised by individual sites
• Clear mapping system – highlighting all fish farms, fisheries, open rivers and waters
• Movement tracking and vulnerable area identification in case of major incidents
• Site visit scheduling
• Laboratory sample tracking
• Results monitoring
• Licence and licence holder information
• Powerful querying and reporting facility

Benefits

A shared database holding information from a wide range of sources offers many benefits, including:

• Effective and consistent decision making from information on all fish movements
• Improved enforcement measures preventing and detecting fish thefts and illegal imports
• Supports cross-organisational objectives
• Increased fish and environment protection
• Effective fish disease prevention
• Reduction in fish-related crime
• Reduction operational costs