Secure interventions
Prepare captures, handling, transports and releases.
Wild Aquatic Wildlife
Veterinary expertise for wild aquatic animals, supporting health surveillance, conservation, sampling programmes and environmental research.
The issues we help you address
Limit the impact on animals
Prevent stress, injuries, hypoxia and delayed mortality.
Interpreting mortalities
Distinguish between health, toxic and environmental hypotheses.
Protect the environments
Avoid the spread of pathogens between sites.
Consolidate protocols
Integrate health, well-being and regulations from the design stage.
Expertise tailored to your organisation
Biosecurity
Prevent pathogen transfer between sites during capture, transport, quarantine and release operations.
Testing & diagnosis
Plan field sampling and interpret mortality by combining health, toxicological and environmental hypotheses.
Therapeutics
Define care, anaesthesia, analgesia and treatments required during operations involving wild aquatic animals.
Animal welfare
Reduce stress, injury, hypoxia and delayed mortality through protocols suited to each species and field setting.
Advice & support
Design operations around their objectives, health risks, permits, logistics and conservation constraints.
Training
Prepare teams for capture, handling, sampling, biosecurity measures and first aid in the field.
A clear, practical approach
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Understand the mission
Context, species, environment, objectives and field constraints.
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Identify risks
Well-being, health, biosecurity and regulatory framework.
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Adapt the protocol
Concrete measures for each stage of the intervention.
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Support the operation
Advice, field presence or interpretation of results.
Veterinary care in conservation programmes
For conservation, transfer, quarantine and wild aquatic animal operations, Vetofish can define appropriate care, anaesthesia, treatment and monitoring measures in accordance with permits and species status.
Working with aquatic wildlife requires balancing project objectives, animal health and the sanitary protection of natural environments.
The veterinarian’s role
Specialist veterinary support throughout the organisation’s health approach.
- Prepare and secure fieldwork involving aquatic animals
- Review capture, scientific fishing and sampling protocols
- Define temporary holding, transport and release conditions
- Investigate mortality and organise biosecurity between sites
- Integrate animal health and welfare into project design
They trust us
Some of the organisations we support in the environmental sector.
Frequently asked questions +
When should a veterinarian be involved in field operations?+
Ideally during protocol design, to anticipate capture, handling, anaesthesia, transport, quarantine, biosecurity, stopping criteria and responses to injured animals.
Can you investigate wild-fish mortality events?+
Yes. Vetofish can help describe the event, select animals and samples, perform post-mortem examinations and interpret infectious, toxic and environmental hypotheses together.
How can health risks between sites be reduced?+
Measures may cover visit order, dedicated equipment, cleaning and disinfection, water and effluent management, protective equipment and movement records.
Do you support transfers and conservation programmes?+
Yes. Support may include pre-transfer assessment, examination, quarantine, transport conditions, anaesthesia, care, post-transfer monitoring and consideration of species status.
Can you review a protocol before an authorisation application?+
Yes. Vetofish can review health, veterinary and welfare aspects, while authorisation decisions remain with the relevant authorities and organisations.
A project involving wild aquatic animals?
Let’s anticipate health, regulatory and operational requirements.
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