The Scottish salmon industry is facing challenges in the control of aquatic infectious disease, as is the case in other countries such as Chile and Norway. Disease outbreaks can have an enormous economic impact and possibly affect wild fish populations. Disease transmission in a…
Aquaculture is being seriously considered as a promising sustainable industry in the Sultanate of Oman. Fish farming commenced in Oman in 1986, but it was only in 2011 that it became a more commercially driven sector. While worldwide aquaculture production is expected to rise to…
The ectoparasitic monogenean fluke, Gyrodactylus salaris, is a parasite known to be highly pathogenic to Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Although present in the environment of several neighbouring European countries, the UK is thought to be G. salaris-free, but, if national conti…
Proliferative Kidney Disease (PKD) caused by the Malacosporean parasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae, is presently the most economically damaging disease of British rainbow trout farming, costing the industry in excess of £2.5 million per annum in the UK alone. With no vaccine …