Fish Health Centers: These offices provide long term pathogen surveys and monitoring of fish at National Fish Hatcheries and selected wild fish populations as well as diverse disease diagnostics and investigational studies. The four Fish Health Centers within Region 1 are the lead offices in fish pathogen containment, emergency disease control, and epidemiology assistance to fishery managers. They provide training, policy and biological guidance for fish disease and fish health management to the Region and other Service offices as requested. They assist a wide range of cooperators including states, tribes, non-governmental organizations and other federal agencies with fish health technical and training services. Expertise includes aquatic animal health, physiology, pathology, and microbiology. |
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