Save more than $150 with Early-Bird Registration

(available until January 15, 2018)

Registration Options (Click Daily Schedule at a Glance)

· General Sessions (covering Environmental Stewardship, One Health, Education & Clinical Aquatic Vet Med)

· Hands-on Wetlabs (2 options: Finfish clinical exam, anesthesia & necropsy, or captive Dolphin clinical exam)

· Aquaculture Biosecurity Workshop (including Lectures, Table-top & On-Farm Exercises)

· Conference Banquet & Awards Ceremony (awards for best oral & poster presentations)

For full information, to register and reserve hotel rooms:

https://conferences.wavma.org/events/2018-WAVMA-Conference

Conference Coordinators: Don Bergfelt, Mark Freeman, Dusan Palić, David Scarfe & Julius Tepper.

Read more – http://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/news/not-amused-rspca-investigating-comedian-who-ate-live-goldfish/news-story/d11253cec52be9a7b17ab2b05587b41b

Q1. What is the largest fish in the world?

The whaleshark [grows to over 12.5 m (41 feet) in length and weigh up to 21.5 tonnes].

Q2. What is the smallest fish in the world?

The male of Photocorynus spiniceps measures 6.2 mm.

Q3. What is the lightest fish in the world?

The stout infantfish (Schindleria brevipinguis) weighs 15 mg.

Q4. What is the heaviest bony fish in the world?

The ocean sunfish/mola mola [4.3 m (14 ft) from fin-to-fin, 3.1 m (10 ft) in length and weighed about 2,300 kg (5,100 lb)].

Q5. What is the longest bony fish in the world?

The oarfish [published total length of 11 m (36 ft)—with unconfirmed reports of 17 m (56 ft)].

Q6. What is the deepest fish in the world?

The snailfish, caught in the Mariana Trench. … lives 8 km (5 miles) underwater.

Q7. What is the hottest fish in the world?

The desert pupfish is found in water temperatures of 46 °C (114 °F).

Q8. What is the coldest fish in the world?

The icefish. They produce a natural antifreeze in their blood and have no red blood cells, enabling them to withstand temperatures of 0 °C (32 °F).

Q9. How long is the longest goldfish in the world?

47.4 cm (18.7 in) from snout to tail-fin end, world record made in 2003.

Q10. How old was the oldest goldfish in the world?

43 years.

For more information, go to – https://research.unsw.edu.au/aquatics-symposium-2018

FARMED SALMON ARE DEAF – AND NOW WE KNOW WHY

Scientists have discovered why fast-growing farmed salmon are three times more likely to be partially deaf than their wild relatives

By Dr Nerissa Hannink, University of Melbourne

Sounds like there is health, welfare and conservation issues.

Read more here.

Q: What do fish sing at Christmas time?

A: Christmas corals.

Have a FINtastic Christmas! R <+>{

Q: Who delivers presents to crabs?

A: Santa Claws!

Have a FINtastic Christmas! R <+>{

Now if you are into fish health, you cannot go past the Aquavet series of courses.

Check out the excellent presentation of what they do, at this link – https://www2.vet.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/2018%20AQUAVET.pdf

Fish are the sex-switching masters of the animal kingdom.

The habit of switching sex appears to have developed during fish evolution multiple times in separate families, and though in all of them a suite of genetic and hormonal triggers come into play, the enzyme aromatase appears to be the key.

“It can change ‘androgen’ hormones into the estrogenic hormones that can transform gonads into ovaries.” explains Professor Stefano Mariani of the University of Salford.

In freshwater fish, it is well established that chemical pollutants – such as the pesticide atrazine, fertilizer runoff from livestock operations, ethinyl estradiol (the active ingredient in the birth control pill) – have all skewed the sex populations of wild populations of fish.

Read more.