Symposium 'Current Status and Future Prospect of the Research on Fish Diseases in Japan' - Abstracts [Japanese]

摘要

The Japanese Society of Fish Pathology held a symposium entitled "Current Status and Future Prospect of the Research on Fish Diseases in Japan" in Kochi on September 14th, 2002. This symposium was aimed to overview the status of researches on fish diseases and its future prospect in Japan. Keynote lecturers from the Japanese Society of Fish Pathology, Japanese Government, a fisheries association and Korea presented reports on fish disease problems. Opinions of representative speakers from fish farmers, researchers in charge of clinical fish management, and employees of fish feed / pharmaceutics / vaccine companies were also presented. These are summarized as the necessity of: combination of basic and applicable researches; interchange of researches and researchers on fish diseases with those of other research fields; encouragement of young researchers.