Subject: Problems in fish infectious disease

From: Steven Poet <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Jul 1995 18:24:48 GMT

I am looking for opinions and perceptions about infectious disease 
problems in fisheries.  I tried to get input from sci.aquaria and got
surprizingly little response.  I will soon be located in the Southeast
of the US and am interested in applying current biomedical knowledge
and technology to the problems in fish health management.  I hope that
you folks will post to this group instead of emailing me, that should
generate more comments.  I'm a veterinary virologist, but all infectious
diseases are fair game at this point.  Thanks for your input.

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From: Philip Deitiker <[email-masked]>
Date: 26 Jul 1995 20:07:22 GMT

Steve

  I am by no means an expert in this area; however, there are a number of 
articles (over the last five years) which deal specifically with diseases 
of fish in culture. The most notable paper appeared in Science about four 
years ago dealing with a 'phantom dinoflagellate' found in natural and 
manmade fisheries of the eastern seacoast (US). This microorganism 
compares well with common parasites encountered in fresh and marine 
aquarium. 
  I have seen numerous other papers that deal with topics such as:

Disease susceptability and enviromental changes in the coastal fisheries
Disease susceptability in aquaculture and mariculture
Opportunistic pathogens (bacteria) in aquaculture waters
Heavy metal accumulations in natural fisheries comparing prestine and 
developed areas.
Disease and reproductive viability.
Diseases of hatching fish

There are relatively few papers which develope an enviromental defect or 
change and apply it to disease enhancement or susceptibility. The 
'phantom' paper is an exception, there are a few others.

I can not recommend a specific journal, and you probably need to try to 
find a good oceanography and marine biology library as a holo-resource.
In addition you'll will find a disproportionate number of papers which 
deal with disease and disease related issues in the shellfish and 
crustecean culture and natural fisheries.

Philip