Fish Health

Collecting and Submitting Samples

General Guides

Toxicities of Agricultural Pesticides to Selected Aquatic Organisms (PDF)

Medicated Feed for Food Fish (PDF)

Introduction to Freshwater Fish Parasites

Introduction to Viral Diseases of Fish

Protozoan Parasites (PDF, 645 K)

Introduction to Fish Health Management

Disease Identification

Illustrated Field Guide for Assessing External and Internal Anomalies in Fish (56 pages PDF,17 MB)

Fishdisease.net

Proliferative Gill Disease (Hamburger Gill Disease) (PDF)

Ich (White Spot Disease) (PDF)

ESC - Enteric Septicemia of Catfish (PDF)

Aeromonas Bacterial Infections - Motile Aeromonad Septicemia (PDF)

Columnaris Disease: A Bacterial Infection Caused by Flavobacterium columnare (PDF)

Saprolegniasis (Winter Fungus) and Branchiomycosis of Commercially Cultured Channel Catfish (PDF)

Channel Catfish Virus Disease (PDF)

Common Freshwater Fish Parasites Pictorial Guides

Diseases of Warmwater Fish and Trout Diseases DVD, $30.00 from WAS on-line store

Approved Drugs

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Aquatic Animal Drug Approval Partnership (AADAP)

US FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center

National Coordinator for Aquaculture New Animal Drug Applications

General Assistance

North Central Aquaculture Regional Extension Facilitator (NCAREF)

US Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

USDA National Animal Health Monitoring System (NAHMS) Catfish reports

Fish Health Medicine Certificate Program online training course for vets

Diagnostic Labs

Alabama

Fish Disease Lab

Department of Fisheries

203 Swingle Hall

Auburn University, AL 36849

334.844.4786

334.844.9208 fax

Arkansas

Dr. Andrew Goodwin

Aquaculture/Fisheries Center

University of Arkansas Pine Bluff

1200 N. University Drive

Mail Slot 4912*

Pine Bluff, AR 71601

870-575-8137

870-575-4638 fax

870-540-7811 mobile

*For anything other than US mail, the mail slot is not needed.

Kentucky

Dr. Bob Durborow

Cooperative Extension Facility

Kentucky State University

400 East Main Street

Frankfort, KY 40601

502.597.6581

502.597.5933 fax

Mississippi

Aquatic Diagnostic Laboratory

National Warmwater Aquaculture Center

Delta Research and Extension Center

127 Experiment Station Road

Stoneville, MS 38776

662.686.3302

662.686.3568 fax

College of Veterinary Medicine

Mississippi State University

PO Box 6100

Mississippi State, MS 39762

662.325.3432

662.325.4548 fax

Missouri

Missouri Department of Conservation

Dr. Devona Weirich

Lost Valley Hatchery

28232 Hatchery Avenue

Warsaw MO 65355

660.438.4465

660.428.1256 fax

Lincoln University

Cindy Borgwordt

573.681.5452

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Laboratories Approved to Conduct Diagnostic Testing for Export Certification of Aquaculture Species (PDF)