This study compiles updated information related to the sanitary aspects of bivalve mollusks and shrimp in Peru. The purpose was to determine the action needs of aquaculture health professionals, focusing on the generation of new knowledge and innovation that benefit the fishing and aquaculture sector through the training of human capital and the development of technologies for the diagnosis of diseases in aquatic animals. Likewise, the importance of health in the production of bivalve mollusks and prawns is disclosed, concluding that so far in Peru there are few investigations carried out and consequently there is not enough evidence to assess the establishment of health programs. To deal with endemic diseases in our country. The study determines that the main aquaculture production species in Peru are scallops (Argopecten purpuratus), white shrimp (Litopenaeus vannamei), rainbow trout (...