CASE REPORT OF KIDNEY DISEASE IN A WILD CHINOOK SALMON, Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, IN THE SEA

1 January 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Wildlife Disease Association in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Vol. 14 (1) , 120-123
https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-14.1.120

Abstract

An immature chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) that spent winters at sea was found in a Puget Sound beach zone [USA]. Necropsy indicated the fish was infected with bacterial kidney disease (KD). This is the 1st report of KD from a wild fish in the marine environment.

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