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Knut Wiik Vollset and Bjrn Torgeir Barlaup, Uni Research - Environment, LFI, Norway, report on the first observation of a winter epizootic of salmon lice Lepeophtheirus salmonis Kryer on sea trout Salmo trutta Linnaeus in a Norwegian fjord with intensivesalmon…

Eight laboratories worked collectively to evaluate 4 real-time RT-PCR (rRT-PCR) protocols targeting viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus (VHSV) being considered for deployment to a USA laboratory testing network, write Janet V. Warg et al, National Veterinary Se…

Invasive alien species are widely acknowledged as a major threat to the biodiversity of native species. Controlling species invasion is a priority for conservation of native assemblages, write Toshikazu Kizuka et al, Center for Environmental Biology and Ecosys…

The Republic of Kiribati is a vast South Pacific island group with one of the largest exclusive economic zones (EEZs) in the world. Kiribati waters support a wealth of marine fisheries activities, write Brooke Campbell and Quentin Hanich, WorldFish.

This research focuses on the gher farming systems in southwest Bangladesh and which systems are more beneficial economically, through yielding rice or prawn or, in combination, write Shamim Parvez, The WorldFish Center, M. Salekuzzaman, Khulna University, M. E…

The White spot syndrome virus (WSSV) and Penaeus stylirostris penstyldensovirus 1 (previously named Infectious hypodermal and hematopoietic necrosis virus-IHHNV) are two of the most important viral pathogens of penaeid shrimp. Carlos A G Leal, Federal Universi…