Managing disease can be a frustrating proposition. This Guide can help you identify which disease is damaging your fish.
Fish Disease Guide
This comprehensive disease guide provides information on diseases that can affect fish and shellfish.
Typical symptoms associated with the disease are given to help identify the problem and advice for treatment and measures to prevent disease are also available.
To access the disease guide, either select an aquatic species from the list below, or use the drop down menu in the right hand column to search all diseases or by type of disease.

Fish
This section contains a list of diseases that affect fish.
Crustacean
This section contains a list of diseases that affect crustaceans.
Molluscs
This section contains a list of diseases that affect Molluscs.Choose a Disease
By Species:
Fish
- Amoebic gill disease (AGD)
- Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD)
- Channel Catfish Virus Disease
- Enteric Red Mouth Disease
- Enteric Septicaemia of Catfish
- Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome
- Furunculosis
- Gyrodactylus Salaris
- Infectious Haematopoietic Necrosis
- Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPN)
- Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA)
- Infectious Spleen and Kidney Necrosis Virus (ISKNV)
- Piscirickettsiosis
- Koi Herpesvirus
- Red Sea Bream Iridoviral Disease
- Salmonid Rickettsial Septicaemia
- Sea Lice
- Spring Viraemia of Carp
- Viral Encephalopathy and Retinopathy
- Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia
- Whirling Disease
- White Spot Disease
Crustaceans
Molluscs
- Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis (AVG)
- Abalone Herpes-Like Virus
- Akoya Oyster Disease
- Infection with Bonamia Exitiosa
- Infection with Bonamia Ostreae
- Infection with Marteilia Refringens
- Infection with Marteilia Sydneyi
- Infection with Marteilioides Chungmuensis
- Infection with Marteiliosis
- Infection with Mikrocytos Mackini
- Infection with Perkinsus Marinus
- Infection with Perkinsus Olseni
- Iridovirosis (gill necrosis virus)
- Oyster Herpes Virus (OsHV-1)
- Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome
- Xenohaliotis Californiensis
By Cause:
Viral
- Abalone Viral Ganglioneuritis (AVG)
- Channel Catfish Virus Disease
- Infectious Haematopoietic Necrosis
- Infectious Hypodermal and Haematopoietic Necrosis (IHHN)
- Infectious Myonecrosis
- Infectious Pancreatic Necrosis (IPN)
- Infectious Salmon Anaemia (ISA)
- Infectious Spleen and Kidney Necrosis Virus (ISKNV)
- Iridovirosis (gill necrosis virus)
- Koi Herpesvirus
- Pacific Oyster Mortality Syndrome
- Red Sea Bream Iridoviral Disease
- Spring Viraemia of Carp
- Taura Syndrome
- Viral Encephalopathy and Retinopathy
- Viral Haemorrhagic Septicaemia
- White Spot Disease
- White Spot Syndrome Virus
- White Tail Disease
- Yellowhead Disease
Bacterial
Parasitic
- Bacterial Kidney Disease (BKD)
- Xenohaliotis Californiensis
- Gyrodactylus Salaris
- Infection with Bonamia Exitiosa
- Infection with Bonamia Ostreae
- Infection with Marteilia Refringens
- Infection with Marteilia Sydneyi
- Infection with Marteilioides Chungmuensis
- Infection with Mikrocytos Mackini
- Infection with Perkinsus Marinus
- Infection with Perkinsus Olseni
- Sea Lice
- Whirling Disease
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