Fish Diseases and Health Management
Contents: Preface. About the book. About the authors. 1. An introduction to fish health management. 2. Importance of soil and water in fish health management. 3. An introduction to bacterial fish diseases in India. 4. Diseases of catfish and their control. 5. An introduction to fresh water prawn diseases. 6. Prominent catfish diseases. 7. Bacterial disease of freshwater fishes. 8. Probiotics in aquaculture. 9. Fish immunology. 10. Status of fish vaccines. References. Objective type questions. Glossary.
The technology of culturing fish has attracted investors to the aquaculture industry. More often, however, the significant impact of diseases outbreaks is overlooked. It is only when occurrence of mortalities, retarded growth, reduced fecundity or lessoned fish alarmingly reduces profit that the fish farmer become aware of diseases problems. Unfortunately, the disease may be at an advanced stage by the time diagnosis is attempted.
Aquaculture production in Asia has grown rapidly. Unfortunately, a number of infectious disease have emerged as well owing to deteriorating conditions in farms not practicing sound culture management. To aid the industry in dealing with its problems in diseases, the present book "Fish Diseases and Health Management" is prepared. This book provides ten research articles of reputed researchers in the field of fish health management. Articles cover topics of environmental, bacterial, fungal and viral diseases. Beside, these the three most important and new topics (i) Probiotics in aquaculture (ii) Fish immunology and (iii) Status of Fish Vaccines are the main attraction of the book.
The objective of this book is to acquaint the fish farmers and students with the basic knowledge on disease causation and development among cultured fish and the management of major fish diseases. This book will be very useful for UG and PG students, personals and research libraries because it gives current literature of many aspects of fish health management in one volume." (jacket)
