Book Review

Handbook of Trout & Salmon Diseases (3rd Edition)

Ronald J. Roberts & C. Johnathan Shepherd

A practical handbook of trout and salmon diseases written primarily for the fish farmer, but of use to biologists interested in disease problems. Covers the etiology, prevention, and treatment of salmonid diseases.

This new third edition is greatly revised, with considerable use of colour illustrations, and provides a wealth of information hitherto unavailable to the farmer on new diseases and on new problems with older ones. It also addresses the newer production technologies and their disease problems and the new treatments such as vaccines which were merely promising research topics when the last edition was produced ten years ago.

This text is the product of fifty years’ combined experience of the salmon farming industry by two veterinarians who have been involved from the very start, and has for many years been a recommended text for students at many levels. The authors do not presuppose any prior knowledge of fish biology or pathology, and use common names (where they won’t cause confusion). This fully updated and revised edition will be a must for all concerned with diseases of salmonids.

$123 Hardback 192pp 138 illustrations
ISBN 0 85238 244 8
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