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Dry diets for Chinook salmon Dry diets for Chinook salmon

The purpose of this paper is to present the results obtained with seven different diets used as starting diets of chinook salmon fry.
Authors
Walter E. Neilson, J. J. Mazuranich

Etiology of sockeye salmon 'virus' disease Etiology of sockeye salmon 'virus' disease

Violent epizootics among hatchery reared sockeye salmon fingerlings (Oncorhynchus nerka) caused by a filterable agent have occurred. In 1954, one source of this infectious, filterable agent was found to be adult sockeye viscera used in the diet for the fingerlings. The results of observations on an epizootic in 1958 indicate that the infection may be transmitted to fingerlings from a...
Authors
Raymond W. Guenther, S.W. Watson, R.R. Rucker, A. J. Ross

Fish mycobacteriosis (Tuberculosis) Fish mycobacteriosis (Tuberculosis)

The etiologic agent for the bacterial disease, "fish tuberculosis" (more correctly "mycobacteriosis"), was first observed in carp in 189& from a pond in France. Subsequently similar agents have been isolated from or observed in fish in fresh water, salt water, and brackish water, in fish in aquaria, hatcheries, and natural habitat~ (wild populations of fish). The disease has been...
Authors
T. J. Parisot, J.W. Wood

Mycobacterial infections in adult salmon and steelhead trout returning to the Columbia River Basin and other areas in 1957 Mycobacterial infections in adult salmon and steelhead trout returning to the Columbia River Basin and other areas in 1957

The degree of incidence of acid -fast bacillus infections in adult salmonid fishes was determined. The disease was shown to be widely distributed in the area examined. It is believed the primary source of infection is derived from the hatchery practice of feeding infected salmon products to juvenile fish. One group of marked adults that had been hatchery reared for 370 days showed a 62...

White-spot disease of salmon fry White-spot disease of salmon fry

White-spot disease, sometimes referred to as coagulated-yolk disease, has been associated with excessive mortalities occurring among the fry and early fingerling stages of the fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytacha) at the U.S. Fish-Cultural Stations at Carson, Cook, Underwood, and Willard, Washington. This disease of eggs and fry should not be confused with the "white-spot"...
Authors
J. J. Mazuranich, W. E. Nielson

A possible cause of sunburn in fish A possible cause of sunburn in fish

A LESION DESCRIBED AS A GRAY ΡATCH GENERALLY LOCATED ΑΝΤΕRIOR TO THE DORSAL FIN has been associated with high mortality of fish on numerous occasions in production hatcheries throughout the United States. This lesion has been called "sunburn" or "backpeel." No bacteria or other pathogens have been found in fish with these symptoms. For example, at a Montana hatchery in April 1956...

Rapid counting of nematoda in salmon by peptic digestion Rapid counting of nematoda in salmon by peptic digestion

The nematode parasite Anisakis sp. can be recovered, relatively unaltered, from chum salmon musculature by high temperature (52°+2°C.) peptic digestion of the flesh. The procedure, which is presented in detail, appears to be more thorough in isolating the parasite than dissection of the flesh and manual isolation of the worms. In addition, the procedure is rapid, comparatively simple...
Authors
Joseph A. Stern, Diptiman Chakravarti, Joseph R. Uzmann, M. N. Hesselholt

Tuberculosis of fish Tuberculosis of fish

No abstract available.
Authors
Thomas J. Parisot
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