ssterner at unlinfo.unl.edu (Mauritz Sterner III) wrote:
>> 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?
> >
> >--
> >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>The term "catfish" is used to describe hundreds of often
distantly-related species of fish. The best thing would be to find
which species of catfish you have there.
James Munro
Glasgow University
