Marine finfish pathology: Specific problems and research in the French West Indies

Type Proceedings paper
Date 1989-02
Language English
Author(s) Gallet Desaint Aurin D, Raymond J, Vianas Viviane
Meeting Advances in Tropical Aquaculture, Tahiti (French Polynesia), 20 Feb - 4 Mar 1989
Source Actes de colloques Ifremer, Tahiti, French Polynesia, 20 Feb - 4 Mar 1989, n°9, chap. 15, pp.143-160
Keyword(s) Growth, Hatcheries, Nutrient deficiency, Nutritional requirements, Pathology, Parasitic diseases, Fish culture
Abstract The finfish species reared in marine intensive conditions in the French Caribbean Islands are imported (European seabass, American red drum and Oreochromis hybrids) or local (Carangids and Lutjanids) species. The European seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax ) is susceptible, during its first year of life, to a contagious disease characterized by whirling and hyperexcitability, associated with severe lesions of the brain, viral particles being pointed out in the damaged nervous cells.
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Gallet Desaint Aurin D, Raymond J, Vianas Viviane (1989). Marine finfish pathology: Specific problems and research in the French West Indies. Actes de colloques Ifremer, Tahiti, French Polynesia, 20 Feb - 4 Mar 1989, n°9, chap. 15, pp.143-160. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00000/1478/