Gooddiaynosis:Transformation of aquacultura has been made possible hv advannas in control Df 'hew' diseases

摘要

It's now exactly 50 years since I first started to work on fish pathology. In l965 there was a spate of diseased wild salmon presented for diagnosis at the University of Glasgow Vet School. No one knew anything about them, so as the most junior pathologist, I was assigned the task of post-morteming them and reporting to the aggrieved river proprietors.That was the start of the UDN outbreak which lasted only for a few years but changed the way we deal with fish diseases in the UK forever. It led directly to the setting up of the fish disease teams in Aberdeen and Weymouth, and also to my being given the chance to set up the fore-runner of the Institute of Aquaculture, the Aquatic Pathobiology Unit, funded by the Nuffield Foundation.