Health Maintenance And Principal Microbial Diseases Of Cultured Fishes 3rd Edition Plumb by Plumb, John A., Hanson, Larry A. 9780813816937, 0813816939 instant download after payment.

 The objective of Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes is to emphasize salient points of host–pathogen–environment relationships, elucidate important aspects of infectious diseases, and explore how management can be used to prevent and reduce their effects on aquaculture.

Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes, Third Edition is a thoroughly revised and updated version of the classic text. Building on the wealth of information presented in the previous edition, this new edition offers a major revision of the valuable health maintenance section, with new pathogens added throughout the book. Health Maintenance and Principal Microbial Diseases of Cultured Fishes, Third Edition focuses on maintaining fish health, illustrating how management can reduce the effects of disease. The text is divided into sections on health maintenance, viral diseases, and bacterial diseases, and covers a wide variety of commercially important species, including catfish, salmon, trout, sturgeon, and tilapia. This book is a valuable resource for professionals and students in the areas of aquaculture, aquatic health maintenance, pathobiology, and aquatic farm management.

Infectious diseases of cultured fish pose significant constraints to expansion and realization of aquaculture’s full potential. Viral, bacterial, and parasitic agents infect many wild and all cultured fish species. Most pathogenic agents are endemic to natural waters where, under normal conditions, they cause no great problem. However, when these same diseases occur in an aquacultural environment they may cause significant disease and mortality. Cultured fish are often confined to an environment to which they are not biologically accustomed, a circumstance that often increases susceptibility to infectious disease. It is virtually impossible to separate the relationship of infectious disease from problems associated with environmental quality.