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Current status of koi herpesvirus disease in Taiwan
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
The first reported case of koi herpesvirus disease (KHVD) occurred in northern Taiwan in December 2002. Later, there were three more cases in 2003 and one outbreak of KHVD in 2004. Externally, the affected fish did not ...
Parasitic diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
A wide variety of parasitic organisms have been reported as causing significant problems in grouper aquaculture. In the hatchery and nursery stages, parasitic diseases of groupers are caused predominantly by protozoans, ...
Viral diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Some viral infections are serious diseases of groupers causing heavy mortalities. In most cases, larval stages are the most susceptible stage. With the carnivorous nature of groupers, they can readily ingest viral pathogens ...
Bacterial diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Bacteria are very common in the aquatic environment. Most bacterial disease agents are part of the normal flora of the water. They cause disease only when the fish are stressed due to poor environmental conditions, inadequate ...
Nutritional diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Nutritional diseases of fish may develop as a result of deficiency (undernutrition), excess (overnutrition), or imbalance (malnutrition) of nutrients present in their food. The disease usually develops gradually because ...
Environmental diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
This chapter focuses on swimbladder stress syndrome and gas bubble disease, the two most common disorders due to adverse environmental conditions.
Fungal diseases
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
The incidence of ichthyophoniosis in groupers (Epinephelus) has been reported in Plectropomus sp. in Singapore and Cromileptes altivelis in Indonesia. It has also been known to infect at least 80 other species of teleost ...
Diseases of cultured groupers
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
Groupers (Epinephelus) are recognized as economically-important marine fish and abundantly cultured in Southeast Asia for domestic consumption and overseas export. Various diseases occur in grouper aquaculture and frequently ...
Experience on common carp mass mortality in Japan
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
The mortality rate among common carp for food reared in net pens in Lake Kasumigaura, the second largest lake in Japan, in Ibaraki Prefecture, increased from early October 2003 and koi herpesvirus (KHV) was detected in the ...
Current status of transboundary fish diseases in the Philippines: Occurrence, surveillance, research and training
(Aquaculture Department, Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center, 2004)
The paper discussed the current status of transboundary fish diseases in Philippines. The following were given focus in the paper: status of Koi Herpesvirus in the production of common carp and koi and the status of viral ...