In message <47mhad$5it$1 at mhade.production.compuserve.com>, Clare Starrett
<70742.235 at CompuServe.COM> writes:
>Over the past 4 weeks we have been experiencing a massive
>fish-kill involving only catfish. They are washing up onto the
>beaches in West Central Florida. Dead fish are seen daily
>floating in the Gulf of Mexico and in Tampa Bay. The local news
>and weather people in Bradenton and Sarasota say that the cause
>is "unknown" and that "not much is known about catfish" however
>scientists suspect that it is a "parasite." Does anyone out
>there know of epidemics in saltwater catfish?
There have been freshwater dieoff of catfish associated with amyxozoan parasite
located on the gills. Has anyone checked for these parasites?
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>Clare Starrett, Bradenton, FL
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Skip Sterner, Collection Manager
HW Manter Laboratory of Parasitology
Division of Parasitology
W-529 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska State Museum
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
Tel: 402-472-3334
Fax: 402-472-8949
e-mail: ssterner at unlinfo.unl.ed
