Name : Javaria Muhammad

Roll No: 13
Semester : 8th
Topic: Common Aqua Culture Diseases
Common Aqua Culture Diseases

Infectious disease of fish are:

i. Viral Diseases
ii. Bacterial Diseases
iii. Protozoan Diseases
iv. Crustaceans Disease
v. Fungal Disease
i. Viral Diseases
 Many fishes are susceptible to a number of virus diseases.
 These diseases can cause severe economic loss in infected
form.
 No means of chemotherapy is available for treating these
diseases which are caused by viruses.
 Therefore control measures are aimed at preventing
initial spread of virus.
S.No CCV Diseases Susceptible Fish symptoms
1 Channel Cat fish virus Channel Cat fish Swim erratically,
Haemorrhages of
Gill, skin and fin
base.

2 IHN Disease
Infectious Haematopoietic Salmonids Whirling movement
Necrosis belly in flate, thread
like mucus from
anus

3 IPN Disease
Infectious pancreatic necrosis Salmonids Revolving
movement, white
fluid in body cavity,
necrosis of
pancrease.

4 SVC Disease
Spring viraemia of carp Common Carp Slow movement ,
dark skin,
abdominal dropsy,
bleeding in different
organs.
5 VHS Disease
Viral Haemorrhagic Rainbow Trout Belly swells, Foul smelling
Septicaemia
ii. Bacterial Diseases
 Bacterial pathogens are responsible for heavy mortality
of both cultured and wild fishes and shell fishes
(Molluscs) etc.
 Many bacterial infections are associated with viral and
fungal infection, hence the identity of the disease and
the description of causative agent may be confusing.
 Sanitation and prevention are important to control the
disease.
 Chemotherapeutic agents (drugs) can be used in
treating bacterial diseases.
Diseases Susceptible Pathogen Symptoms Treatment
Fish
Furunculosis Cold and Aeromonas Blister on the Medicated
(ulcer disease warm water Salmonicida skin, feed,
in gold fish, fish protruding terramycin
carp eyes 3g /45 g of fish
Erythroderma for 10 days
titis)
Columnaris Cold and Flexibacter Discoloured Bath of copper
disease warm water Columnaris grey patches sulphate for 20
fish in dorsal fin min at 33 ppm
area. Lesion or potassium
mouth and permanganate
head region. at 2 ppm for
Gill rot indefinite
period.
Teramycin 4
g /45 kg fish in
feed.
Diseases Susceptible Pathogen Symptoms Treatment
Fish
Gill rot Grass carp Myxococcus Hyperplasia Apply
Piscicola (enlargement bleathing
of gill powder @ of
epithelium. about 4 kg
Pale /hour.
colouration of
gills.
iii. Protozoan Diseases

 Numerous protozoan parasites live on fish.

 They cause both external and internal diseases.
 Even moderate number of these organism on small
fish may prove fatal since the infection may cause the
fish to stop feeding.
Diseases Parasite symptoms Treatment

Trypanosomiasis Tripanosoma Slow movement, Oral therapy with

species (Flagellate) loss of appetite. 50mg
Metronidazole /kg
for six days.

Whirling disease Myxosoma Whirling No cure.Affected

Cerebralis movement, fish distroyed.
(Sporozoan) Blackenig of tale.

Pimple of knot Myxobolus specie Knots or pimples Chemical

disease (sporozoan) on the affected treatment is not
tissue. Affected known, infected
fish thin. stock should be
eliminated.
Crustaceans Disease

 More than 1500 species of copepods are parasitic on

fish.
Disease Parasite Symptoms Treatment
Argulosis Argulus specie Red blotches. Bath in
(fish lice) Fish shows signs potassium
of nervousness permanagnate
and scratch mg/l for 30 to 40
themselves to get sec
rid of parasite.
Ergasilosis Eragasilus specie Destruction of Treatment as
gills, nervousness described for
argulosis