Fish medicine
The fish medicine is a part of veterinary medicine . The area of responsibility of the department is wide-ranging: In addition to the examination of fish , it deals with the diagnosis , therapy and prophylaxis of fish diseases as well as a variety of other aspects. These include in particular pond management , disease control , the physiology of fish, wastewater biology and toxicology (insofar as they influence fish), questions about immunology and hygiene, as well as pond management production theory and damage calculation in fish waters.
The first attempts to study fish diseases are up to around 1450 BC. Demonstrable. In Germany, the first textbook on fish diseases was published by the zoologist and ichthyologist Hofer in 1904. Nonetheless, training for this specialist area is only marginalized at veterinary educational institutions.
Throughout Germany there are around 25 veterinarians who specialize in the treatment of fish in additional training (Ritter, 2007). The fish health services or similar institutions of the federal states are active in the administrative, investigative and advisory areas . Most of the specialist veterinarians are also employed there, only a few at universities, at companies or as official veterinarians. For economic reasons, very few fish veterinarians work independently.
literature
- Hofer, Bruno: Handbook of fish diseases . Publishing house of the General. Fischerei Zeitung, Munich 1904
- Ritter, Andre: On the situation of medicine in ornamental fish in Germany . Deutsches Tierärzteblatt 4/2007, pp. 428–436
- Snieszko, Stanislas: History and Present Status of Fish Disease . J. Wildl Dis 1975 11: 446-459