The Asia Regional Advisory Group on Aquatic Animal Health meets annually to discuss regional disease issues including emerging disease threats. This is the report of the seventh meeting, held 23-25 November 2015 in Bangkok, Thailand. The report discusses emerging disease problems and regional response including to:

• Finfish diseases: Viral nervous necrosis, streptococcosis, flexibacteriosis, motile aeromonas infection, Benedenia spp., scale drop disease (iridoviral infection), Group B Streptococcus infection.
• Crustacean diseases: Whitespot syndrome virus, yellowhead virus type-1 and type-8, covert mortality nodavirus, infectious myonecrosis virus, infectious hypodermal and haematopoietic necrosis, taura syndrome, yellowhead disease, abdominal segment deformity disease, Laem-Singh virus, hepatopancreatic parvovirus, monodon baculovirus, acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei.
• Mollusc diseases: Acute viral necrosis virus, withering syndrom caused by Candidatus xenohaliotis californiensis, ostreid herpesvirus-1, Bonamia ostreae, Perkinsus sp., Marteilia granula.
• Amphibian diseases: Chytrid fungus Batrachochtrium dendrobatidis, B. salamandrivorans, ranavirus, 
• Reptile diseases: Bacillus thuringiensis, adenoviral hepatitis, crocodile pox, dermatophilosis (streptothrichosis).

Other issues discussed included:

• Anti-microbial resistance.
• Progress of NACA's Aquatic Animal Health Programme.
• Outcomes of the OIE General Session and Aquatic Animal Health Standards Commission meetings, 2015.
• Disease reporting, including changes to the OIE list of notifiable diseases and establishment of a global online reporting system (WAHIS) by OIE.
• Review of the Quarterly Aquatic Animal Disease Reporting System.
• Progress in implementation of the the Regional Technical Guidelines on Health management for the Responsible Movement of Live Aquatic Animals.
• Identification and designation of regional aquatic animal health resources, including experts, centres and reference laboratories.
• Regional and international cooperation.