Parasites causing disease in wild and cultured fish in Newfoundland

• Main Author: Rasul A Khan
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Disease; fish; protozoans; microsporan; myxozoan; cestode; copepod YFIRLIT Sjúkdómsvaldandi sníkjudýr í eldis- og villifiski á Nýfundnalandi; Arctic; Loma; Arctic charr; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua; Newfoundland; Salvelinus alpinus
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.506.2807; http://www.landbunadur.is/landbunadur/wgsamvef.nsf/8bbba2777ac88c4000256a89000a2ddb/5d896727d2d2268500257672004c817d/$file/ias parasites causing disease.pdf

This study, based on field and laboratory observations, investigated the role of parasites as the cause of disease outbreaks and mass mortality in wild and cultured fish in Newfoundland over three decades. One ciliated protozoan, Trichodina jadranica (Ciliophora), and Loma branchialis (Microspora) w...