| first report of piscine nodavirus infecting wild winter flounder pleuronectes americanus in passamaquoddy bay, new brunswick, canada. | piscine nodaviruses (betanodaviridae) are frequently reported from a variety of cultured and wild finfishes. these non-enveloped, single-stranded rna virions cause viral encephalopathy and retinopathy (ver), also known as viral nervous necrosis (vnn) or fish encephalitis. recently, nodavirus infections have posed serious problems for larval and juvenile cultured halibut hippoglossus hippoglossus in norway and scotland. to date, no such viruses have been described from any cultured or wild pleuro ... | 2002 | 12078988 |
| evaluation of external operculum loop tags to individually identify cage-cultured atlantic halibut hippoglossus hippoglossus in commercial research trials. | the growth, survival and tag retention of double-tagged [external ft4 lock-on (ft4) and internal passive integrated transponder (pit)-tagged] atlantic halibut hippoglossus hippoglossus were compared to internal pit-tagged controls in a randomized trial. the objective was to assess the suitability of these tags for monitoring the performance of individual fish in longitudinal trials under commercial cage-culture conditions in the lower bay of fundy, new brunswick, canada. the ft4 tags were chosen ... | 2012 | 22551181 |