This long running FIRTA grant supported a center in Australia for research, consultancy and training on parasites and diseases important to the fishing industry. The center was established by FIRTA in 1977. During the life of FIRC 1981-020 many industry problems were successfully...

A symposium on protozoan diseases of aquatic animals was planned as a feature of the 10th International Congress of Protozoology. Speakers invited for the symposium were: Dr Mike Hine, NIWA, NZ, an expert on oyster and fish diseases, Prof. Tim Flegel, Mahidol University, Bangkok, an expert on prawn...

This project found and described a baculovirus similar to Monodon Baculovirus (MBV) that was called Plebejus Baculovirus (PBV) as it was in eastern king prawns (Penaeus plebejus). It later found it in Australian cultured Penaeus monodon. The project investigated other conditions, particularly...