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By Fish Health Program (FHP)

The Western Fisheries Research Center’s Fish Health Program conducts science focused on understanding the control, distribution and severity of infectious diseases affecting hatchery and wild fish. The scope of our research includes virology, bacteriology, immunology, histology, molecular biology, pathogen ecology, epidemiology, disease modeling, evolution and genetics.

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      Seventy-Five Years of Science - The Story of the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Fisheries Research Center, 1935-2010

      As of January 2010, 75 years have elapsed since Dr. Frederic Fish initiated the pioneering research program that would evolve into today's Western Fisheries Research Center (WFRC). Fish began his research working alone in the basement of the recently opened Fisheries Biological Laboratory on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. 

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      Seventy-Five Years of Science - The Story of the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Fisheries Research Center, 1935-2010

      As of January 2010, 75 years have elapsed since Dr. Frederic Fish initiated the pioneering research program that would evolve into today's Western Fisheries Research Center (WFRC). Fish began his research working alone in the basement of the recently opened Fisheries Biological Laboratory on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington. 

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