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Sharpe, Bill

The whirling disease, a parasitic infection affecting trout, has destroyed the species in many states. The N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission has developed strategies to keep it out of hatcheries. They include getting fish from disease-free sources.

Wildlife in North Carolina (NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 59 Issue 8, Aug 1995, p29, il Periodical Website

Trout; Fish hatcheries; Fish as carriers of disease

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Not Given

The cause of dead and dying fish in Lake James has been identified as an epistylis infection, more commonly known as ‘red sore disease.’ Water samples have revealed no pollutants, so are attributed the outbreak to natural occurrences.

Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 23 Issue (26) 1, Winter 1979, p8

Fish as carriers of disease

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Not Given

A bacterial infection in fish, red sore disease is reaching an epidemic level in parts of the Chowan River-Albemarle Sound drainage system.

Friend O’ Wildlife (NoCar Oversize SK 431 F74x), Vol. 24 Issue (27) 2, Feb 1980, p4, 16

Fish as carriers of disease