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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment
Published on: September 11, 2018
Diseases of tunas, Thunnus spp
B L Munday1, Y Sawada, T Cribb
1School of Human Life Sciences, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. barry.munday@utas.edu.au
Abstract:
Much is known about those aspects of tuna health which can be studied in wild populations, e.g. helminth parasites. However, because aquaculture of these species is in its infancy, knowledge of microbial, nutritional and environmental diseases is limited. This review is an attempt to bring together the available information on those diseases of Thunnus spp. which cause significant morbidity, mortality or economic loss. In doing so it has become clear that much more research needs to be undertaken on the physiology of the species (southern, northern and Pacific bluefin tuna) currently used in aquaculture in order for the pathogenesis of some conditions to be properly understood. Attempts at hatchery culture of Pacific bluefin tuna has indicated that Thunnus spp. will be problematic to hatch and propagate.
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