Epizootic haematopoietic necrosis vims (EHNV) was the first virus isolated from finfish in Australia. It causes outbreaks of disease in wild redfin perch (Perca fluviatilis) and also in hatchery reared rainbow trout (Onchorhynchus mykiss). The principal aim of this project, which was to develop a...

Bacterial necrosis was the only bacterial disease syndrome seen during monitoring of 8 larval production runs at 2 commercial hatcheries during the study. Results indicated a possible causal relationship between concentrations of one or more components of the "presumptive Vibrio" populations in...

A two and a half year study was conducted to compare the performance of sibling diploid and triploid Sydney rock oysters Saccostrea commercialis (Iredale and Roughley) at three intertidal and one subtidal site in Port Stephens, New South Wales (NSW). The findings of this study have major...

This document is the final report of research undertaken in FIRTA project 87/81 and in FIRDTF project 89/60. The results reported in the disease prevention segment (FIRTA 87/81) build upon the experience derived from six years of previous FIRTA supported investigation of pearl oyster mass...