the requirements for the importation of aquatic animals and their gametes into thailand for culture 2 pages available in thai and 4 pages in english . as there were reports of herpesvirus infection in koi car and common carp taura syndrome in marine shrimps and diseases in other aquatic animals in many countries. recently koi herpesvirus khv outbreaks in indonesia and japan caused severe damages to common car aquaculture in both countries. scientific evidence indicated that koi car were also affected by khv. crustaceans and molluscs are also susceptible to many damaging pathogenic infections. movement of un-certified live aquatic animals and their gametes can easily spread the disease. therefore the department of fisheries dof has established a strategy to control trans-boundary movement of aquatic animal diseases using quarantine measures on imports as follows - pre-importation facilities of thai aquatic animal farms or companies have to achieve the quarantine standard of the dof before receiving an import permit. - arrival of aquatic animals and their gametes at the port the imported animals and their gametes must be accompanied with certificate of origin and health. the fish will be subjected to quarantine at the certified quarantine areas of the importing farms or companies. - post-importation aquatic animals will be quarantined for at least 15 days. fish health inspectors will examine the animals for diseases listed in the oie koi herpesvirus and other contagious pathogens. if serious pathogens are found the animals and their gametes will be destroyed without compensation. certificate of origin and health shall certify as follows 1 the aquatic animals in each shipment meet the following conditions - they come from a country zone or farm establishment where veterinary authorities use health measures described in the diagnostic manual for aquatic animal diseases from office international des epizooties oie if the test methods of any disease is not designated in most recent edition of the diagnostic manual test methods of the disease published in international science journals shall be used. this must be stated in the certificate. 2 this country zone or farm establishment is recognized officially unaffected by the following diseases for fish epizootic haematopoietic necrosis spring viraemia of carp viral haemorrhagic septicaemia red sea bream iridovirus viral encephalopathy and retinopathy iridovirus or ranavirus koi herpesvirus for molluscs bonamiosis bonamia ostreae b. exitiosus. haplosporidiosis haplosporidium costale h.nelsoni marteiliosis marteilia refringens m. sydneyi microcell disease mikrocytos mackini m. roughleyi perkinsosis perkinsus marinus p. olsen atlanticus for crustacean taura syndrome white spot disease yellowhead disease infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis for amphibians epizootic haematopoietic necrosis ranavirus for reptiles iridovirus or ranavirus poxvirus