Fish Health and Disease

Researchers at that MMFS are experimentally determining the impacts of high PCB body burdens on the immunocompetency and disease susceptibility of Pacific herring.

Researchers at the MMFS are studying the immediate and delayed effects of petroleum hydrocarbon exposures to Pacific herring.

The Disease Ecology Research Program at the Marrowstone Marine Field Station addresses fundamental disease processes that impact wild marine and anadromous fishes. The program is not designed around particular host or pathogen species; rather we investigate diseases processes that involve numerous species of marine hosts and pathogens. Please follow the links for more information about some of the...

Low early marine survival rates of Puget Sound steelhead ( Oncorhynchus mykiss), the state fish of Washington, have contributed to its dramatic population decline and current listing as a “Threatened Species” under the Endangered Species Act. Determining the cause(s) of this elevated mortality remains a primary objective of the Salish Sea Marine Survival Project, a large US / Canada effort...

Using an approach that involves a combination of field- and laboratory-based studies, we are investigating fish health factors that may be contributing to the failed recovery of Pacific herring populations in Prince William Sound, AK. Field studies are providing infection and disease prevalence data to inform the population models, serological data that indicate the prior exposure history and...

Fish Parasite - Nanophyetus salmincola

Fish Parasite - Ichthyophonus hoferi

Fish Virus - Erythrocytic Necrosis Virus (ENV)

Fish Virus - Viral Hemorrhagic Septicemia Virus (VHSV)

Species Studied - Steelhead Trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Species Studied - Pacific Herring ( Clupea pallasii)

Species Studied - Pacific Halibut ( Hippoglossus stenolepis)