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External copepods on shark
Ben Doolan with a cobia
Ben Doolan with a yellowtail kingfish
Kingfish sea cage culture net change
Kate with a mahi mahi
Isopod removed from mulloway mouth!
Blood feeding
Gnathia
sp. (generalist)
Lernaeenicus
sp. leg 2 expopod ex garfish
Yellow eyed mullet at the fish market
Mulloway sea cage culture
Farmed mulloway
(Argyrosomus japonicus)
Nematode worms (and cestode cyst) on snapper ovary
Posterior spines on blood fluke
(Paradeontacylix
sp.
)
Unidentified copepod on shark skin
Benedenia sekii
from snapper – Australian Museum specimen
Sharp-beaked gurnard
(Pterygotrigla polyommata)
Dennis Heinicke with a thumper trumpeter
(Latris lineata)
Monogenean
(Bivagina pagrosomi)
from snapper gills – AM specimen
Myxosporeans
(Ceratomyxa
spp.
)
from the gall bladder of salmon
Queen snapper
(Nemadactylus valecienessi)
Nematode
Philometra
from body cavity of garfish
Volunteer Charlie Walsh examining gills for parasites
Ian Whittington at the microscope
Sizing up the catch at the Port MacDonnell weigh in
Kate at Australasian Aquaculture conference, Brisbane 2008
Bomolochid copepod from the gills of garfish
Close up of
Lernaeenicus
sp. head from the flesh of garfish
A monogenean infection on a kingfish
The Natural History Museum, London
Rainbow runner
(Elegatis bipinnulata)
in New South Wales
The Innes Brothers – commercial kingfish catch
Tuna haul – Port MacDonnell Fishing Tournament
Out on the water, Port MacDonnell
Copepod infection on bream
(Acanthopagrus
sp.
)
Cestode cysts from kingfish body cavity
Working from home!
Cleaning table, Port MacDonnell
Dissecting yellow eyed mullet
(Aldrichetta forsteri)
Benedenia sciaenae
on mulloway head
Queen snapper
(Nemadactylus valencienessi)
prior to dissection
Red snapper
(Centroberyx gerrardi)
Field laboratory
Dissections
Hard at work!
Copepods on blue mako skin
Lizzie and Ian with Paul Rogers, Port MacDonnell tournament
Australasian Aquaculture conference, 2008
Australasian Aquaculture conference, 2008
Cultured cobia prior to dissection
Cobia
(Rachycentron canadum)
Cultured cobia
(Rachycentron canadum)
Queensland
Isopod removed from leatherjacket skin
Female isopod showing brood pouch
Ajax, Greenwell Point, New South Wales
Parasites on gills of mulloway
Benedenia sciaenae
on mulloway
Skin monogeneans
(Benedenia seriolae)
from kingfish
Blood fluke
(Paradeontacylix
sp.
)
from kingfish
Monogenean
(Eurysorchis
sp.
)
from deep sea trevalla gills
Emma with a Samson fish
(Seriola hippos)
, WA
Emma with a Samson fish
(Seriola hippos)
, WA
Emma fishing, Shikari, WA
Dissecting mahi mahi, New South Wales
Lab work, New South Wales Fisheries
Aboard the Ajax
Skin fluke
(Benedenia seriolae)
on kingfish
The Innes Brothers and sons and Kate
Ian taking a break from the microscope – nice beanie!
Sarah dissecting tommy ruff
(Arripis georgianus)
Sarah in the Marine Parasitology Laboratory
Searching for internal parasites
Kate and Emma out with Shikari Charters, WA
Ian removes monogenean from sunfish skin
Holy Mola! An Ocean sunfish
(Mola
sp.
)
for dissection
Kate with amberjack
(Seriola dumerili)
Kate with Allan Bevan, Shikari Charters, WA
Inspecting a knifejaw
(Oplegnathus woodwardi)
for external parasites
Kate with amberjack
(Seriola dumerili)
Emma with Allan Bevan, Shikari Charters, WA
Emma jig fishing
Sun fish
(Mola
sp.
)
intestine
Sunfish monogeneans on skin
Chock full of tapeworms! The sunfish intestine
Kangaroo Island Honours trip
A brace of snapper!
Good catch of whiting and snook
Snapper
(Chrysophrys auratus)
Sarah with a snapper catch!
Tongue biter,
Ceratothoa
sp.
Red Snapper
Centroberyx gerrardi
sp.
Southern bluefin tuna.
Southern bluefin tuna.
Seasick.
Natural History Museum fish collection.
Isopod on pectoral fin of gemfish.
Kate with puffer fish.