1. Major Cultured Species -- 2. Types of Culture Systems -- 3. Equipping a Fish Disease Diagnostic Facility -- 4. The Clinical Work-Up -- 5. Postmortem Techniques -- 6. Guidelines for Interpreting Clinical Findings -- 7. How to Use the Problem List -- 8. Clinical Decision Making: Have the Major Problems Been Identified ? -- 9. Prioritizing Problems -- 10. Treatment Plans -- 11. When to Refer Cases -- 12. Sample Problem Data Sheet (Key to the Headings in Part II) -- 13. Problems 1 Through 9. 1. Environmental hypoxia. 2. Temperature stress. 3. Temperature stratification. 4. Ammonia poisoning. 5. Nitrite poisoning. 6. Too low (too acidic) pH. 7. Too high (too alkaline) pH. 8. Improper hardness. 9. Improper salinity -- 14. Problems 10 through 42. 10. Gas supersaturation. 11. Lamprey infestation. 12. Leech infestation. 13. Copepod infestation/infection. 14. Branchiuran infestation. 15. Isopod infestation. 16. Monogenean infestation. 17. Turbellarian infection. 18. Protozoan ectoparasites: general features. 19. Ich infection. 20. Marine white spot disease. 21. Trichodinosis. 22. Chilodonella infestation. 23. Brooklynella infestation. 24. Uronemosis. 25. Tetrahymenosis. 26. Marine velvet disease. 27. Freshwater velvet disease. 28. Ichthyobodosis. 29. Gill Cryptobia infestation. 30. Gill amoebic infestations. 31. Sessile, solitary, ectocommensal ciliate infestations. 32. Sessile, colonial, ectocommensal ciliate infestations. 33. Typical water mold infection. 34. Atypical water mold infection. 35. Branchiomycosis. 36. Columnaris infection. 37. Bacterial cold water disease. 38. Bacterial gill disease. 39. Lymphocystis. 40. Epitheliocystis. 41. Miscellaneous skin and gill diseases. 42. Incidental findings -- 15. Problem 43. 43. Primary hemopathies -- 16. Problems 44 Through 54. 44. Bacterial dermatopathies/systemic bacterial infections: general features. 45. Motile aeromonad. 46. Aeromonas salmonicida infection. 47. Enteric septicemia of catfish. 48. Edwardsiella tarda infection. 49. Vibriosis. 50. Pasteurellosis. 51. Enteric redmouth disease. 52. Bacterial kidney disease. 53. Mycobacteriosis. 54. Miscellaneous systemic bacterial infections -- 17. Problems 55 Through 72. 55. Digenean trematode infections. 56. Nematode infections. 57. Cestode infections. 58. Acanthocephalan infections. 59. Myxozoan infections: general features. 60. Proliferative gill disease. 61. Ceratomyxa shasta infection. 62. Hoferellus carassii infection. 63. Proliferative kidney disease. 64. Whirling disease. 65. Miscellaneous important myxozoan infections. 66. Microsporidian infections. 67. Icthyophonosis. 68. Miscellaneous systemic fungal infections. 69. Hexamitosis. 70. Tissue coccidiosis. 71. Miscellaneous endoparasitic infections. 72. Idiopathic epidermal proliferation/neoplasia -- 18. Problems 73 Through 78. 73. Systemic viral diseases: general features. 74. Channel catfish virus disease. 75. Infectious pancreatic necrosis. 76. Infectious hematopoietic necrosis. 77. Viral hemorrhagic septicemia. 78. Miscellaneous viral infections -- 19. Problems 79 Through 88. 79. Nutritional deficiency. 80. Hypercarbia. 81. Hydrogen sulfide poisoning. 82. Chlorine/chloramine poisoning. 83. Metal poisoning. 84. Miscellaneous water-borne poisonings. 85. Noxious algae. 86. Environmental shock/delayed mortality syndrome. 87. Traumatic lesions. 88. Genetic anomalies -- 20. Problems 89 Through 92. 89. Freshwater hole-in-the-head syndrome. 90. Marine hole-in-the-head syndrome. 91. Pancreas disease. 92. Miscellaneous important idiopathic diseases -- 21. Problem 93. 93. Egg diseases -- 22. Treatment Guidelines -- 23. Pharmacopoeia -- Appendix I Fish disease diagnosis form -- Appendix II Suppliers -- Appendix III Dangerous aquatic animals -- Appendix IV Scientific names of fish mentioned