THE AQUATIC VETERINARIAN

Volume 7, Number 2
Second Quarter 2013

CONTENTS
WAVMA News:
Editorials …………………………………………………………………………………………….…… 4
Executive Board Reports…………………………………………………………………………….…. 5
Committee Reports……………………………………………………………………………………... 7
Colleague’s Connection…………………………………………...……………………………………. 10
Instructions to Authors ….……………………………………………………………………………….. 9
Peer-Reviewed Articles:
Research Papers………………………………………………………………………………………... 13
Clinical Reports………………………………………………………………………………………….. 19
Grand Round Cases :
Collation of discussions from the WAVMA Listserv …………………………………………………. 24
Literature Reviews:
Abstracts………………………………………………………………………………………………..... 26
News and Views:
New nonlethal test developed to detect fish virus…………..………………………………………. 28
New oyster disease test could give aquaculture a hand............................................................. 29
Caring for health and welfare of fish……………………………………….…………………………. 30
NMFS and USFWS completed a review of the status of the hawksbill sea turtle…………………. 31
30 dolphins dead in Indian River Lagoon…………………….. ……………………………………. 31
Where human trash accumulates in the Deep Sea…………………..……………………………. 32
American Association of Fish Veterinarians formed……………………………………………….. 33
Study reveals disease-causing parasites in dead sea otters……...……………………………... 34
Farmed salmon raises blood levels of Omega-3s ……………………….………………………… 34
New study looks at killer whale deaths to understand whales’ lives…………………………….. 35
Even whales get bitten by mosquitoes………………………………………………………….…… 35
Fatal fungus found in third major amphibian group: caecilians …………………….…...…….…. 36
Pregnancy test frog may have spread fatal fungus ……………………………………………….. 37
Legislative & Regulatory Issues:
Irondequoit Bay Fish Kill Linked to VHS ……………………………...……………………………. 38
FDA announces grant funding available for veterinary testing methods ………….…………….. 39
Special permits for oyster farmers hit by virus………………………………………...……………. 39
Aquatic Veterinary CE&PD ……………………………………………………………………………... 40
Please send articles, clinical reports, or news items to the editor by the following submission dates:
Issue 1 – February 15 (published in March)
Issue 2 – May 15 (published in June)
Issue 3 – August 15 (published in September)
Issue 4 – November 15 (published in December)
All submissions should be in 10-point Arial font, single spaced.
Submissions may be edited to fit the space available.
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