The document is based, in large part, on information presented and discussed by participants at the Second Interregional Workshop of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Project TCP/INT/3502: Reducing and managing the risks of Acute Hepatopancreatic Necrosis Disease (AHPND) of cultured shrimp, one of a series of interregional workshops. These are: 1) TCP/VIE/3304: Technical workshop on early mortality syndrome or acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND) of cultured shrimp, which was hosted by the government of Viet Nam in 2013; 2) TCP/INT/3502: Reducing and managing the risk of AHPND of cultured shrimp, which was hosted by the government of Panama in 2015; 3) TCP/INT/3501 and 3502: Technical workshops on AHPND-this is the way forward, which was hosted by the Government of Thailand in 2016. Other publications emanating from these workshops can be found in Asian Fisheries Science (2018) Vol. 31s: Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND).
