Disease in fish and shellfish is one of the main problems facing aquaculture production. Therefore, all attempts should be made to increase the rate of survival and, thus, reduce economic losses. Much has been done to develop vaccines and medical treatments to reduce mortality; and however, farming of aquatic species has a long way to go to optimize the environmental conditions for the animals ...

SINCE THE PUBLICATION OF PIOneering studies demonstrating low rates of death from coronary heart disease (CHD) among Greenland Eskimos, fish (used herein to refer to finfish or shellfish) has been considered a healthy food. During ensuing years, evidence from several researchparadigms—includinganimal-experimental, observational, and clinical studies—further supported this hypothesis and identif...

Giardia and Cryptosporidium spp. are important enteric protozoan pathogens for humans and animals, and have been found to contaminate water as well as edible shellfish all over the world. This is the first study to simultaneously investigate the presence of Giardia and Cryptosporidium in inflowing water and harvested shellfish in a geographically closed environment (Varano Lagoon, Southern Ital...

. Fish are thought to settle and recruit shellfish seaweed farms; however, there is little published evidence support this assumption. Shellfish farms increase structural complexity epibiota productivity, which may attract settling fish larvae. In study, settlement recruitment patterns into 2 aquaculture habitats, mussel-kelp co-culture mussel farm monoculture, were compared adjacent natural so...

Clinical marine toxicology is a rapidly changing area. Many of the new discoveries reported every year in Europe involve ecological disturbances--including global warming--that have induced modifications in the chorology, behavior, and toxicity of many species of venomous or poisonous aquatic life including algae, ascidians, fish and shellfish. These changes have raised a number of public issue...

We present a case series of snow crab-induced occupational asthma (OA) from a fishing and processing vessel, followed by a review of OA in the commercial fishing industry. OA is typically caused from an IgE-mediated hypersensitivity reaction after respiratory exposure to aerosolized fish and shellfish proteins. It more commonly occurs due to crustaceans, but molluscs and fin fish are implicated...

Chlamydial infections of fish are emerging as an important cause of disease in new and established aquaculture industries. To date, epitheliocystis, a skin and gill disease associated with infection by these obligate intracellular pathogens, has been described in over 90 fish species, including hosts from marine and fresh water environments. Aided by advances in molecular detection and typing, ...