An expert-based risk ranking framework for assessing potential pathogens in the live baitfish trade.

ABSTRACT: As global trade of live animals expands, there is increasing need to assess the risks of invasive organisms, including pathogens, that can accompany these translocations. The movement and release of live baitfish by recreational anglers has been identified as a particularly high-risk pathway for the spread of aquatic diseases in the United States. To provide risk-based decision support for preventing and managing disease invasions from baitfish release, we developed a hazard identification and ranking tool to identify the pathogens that pose the highest risk to wild fish via this pathway. We created a screening protocol and semi-quantitative stochastic risk ranking framework, combining published data with expert elicitation (n = 25) and applied the framework to identify high-priority patho

SUBMITTER: McEachran MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9290568 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature