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Show Takes Glass In Fish Diseases Division of Wildlife Resources Fish Culture Supervisor, Kent Miller, has recently returned from a five-month-long class in the diagnosis and prevention of fish diseases. THE CLASS was conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at their Eastern Fish Disease Laboratory in Lee-town, Lee-town, West Virginia. Miller emphasized that the knowledge gained in the class provides the division with additional ad-ditional expertise in the diagnosis diag-nosis and prevention of diseases which will be used in the state's hatcheries. "THE REAL advantage of obtaining this new information informa-tion is that I now have a better understanding of the disease process and its affect on hatchery-reared fish and hatchery management," Miller said. He also said the knowledge can be applied to prevention of disease in the hatcheries through management techniques. Fish diseases in hatcheries were serious problems in the early development of hatchery systems, Utah included. But with the proper application of knowledge concerning con-cerning diseases and preventive preven-tive measures, Utah's hatcheries have been operated operat-ed in recent years with only occasional disease problems arising. THE "LONG course," as it is called, covers the subjects of fish physiology, fish parasitology, immunology and serology (study of immune im-mune responses), bacteriology and virology. Miller is the first division employee to attend the class, although Ron Goede, fish pathologist and nutritionist at the Fisheries Experiment Station in Logan, attended the class before joining the division. |