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Insight Into Fish Disease To Help Protect Farmed Fish Stocks
Science Daily - sciencedaily.com
24 Apr 2009
Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have gained a key insight into a disease that is devastating the UK's fish farming industry. The researchers have discovered that fish can harbour and spread proliferative kidney disease (PKD), a cause of major stock losses on fish farms, as well as being affected by the infection.
Acid rain and lobster shells
Gloucester Daily Times - gloucestertimes.com
25 Apr 2009
Could acid rain trigger shell disease in lobsters? Professor Joseph G. Kunkel, a teacher and researcher in University of Massachusetts Amherst's Biology Department, began scientifically proving a definitive answer to that important question two years ago. Kunkel is one of 10 investigators in an ongoing Rhode Island Sea Grant-funded Lobster Health Initiative Study that will end in 2010.
Tribe gathering small fish to save dwindling Stilly runHeraldNet - enterprisenewspaperss.com
25 Apr 2009
There was a time when a net cast in the south fork of the Stillaguamish River would bring in a variety of fish. These days, nets often pull up little more than debris.
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- United States-Bovine TB in Texas
WILDLIFE HEALTH RELATED PUBLICATIONS
The Wildlifer - The Wildlife Society Newsletter - April 2009
Issue 349
Special Issue: Adaptative strategies of vector-borne pathogens to vectorial transmission
Veterinary Research - March-April 2009
Volume 40, Number 2
Water-borne transmission drives avian influenza dynamics in wild birds: the case of the 2005-2006 epidemics in the Camargue area
Infect Genet Evol. 2009 Apr 17. [Epub ahead of print]
B Roche et al.
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