To date textbooks on viruses infecting fish crustaceans and molluscs the three main aquatic
animal farmed groups have been on the whole diseases-centric and individual viral diseases
selected based on epizoo-centric approaches with little to no coverage of the basic biology of
the viruses in contrast to textbooks on viruses infecting terrestrial - farmed pet and
free-range (wild) - animals and humans. Despite considerable advances in animal virology in
recent years coupled with an economically important global aquaculture industry knowledge of
viruses of animal aquaculture is still sparse and in some cases outdated although these viruses
are closely related to well-known virus families. The last book in fish virology (Fish viruses
and fish viral diseases 1988 Wolf K.) was published in the 1980s. A lot of work has been done
on fish viruses and many new aquatic animal viruses continue to be discovered. Aquaculture
Virology provides the current state of knowledge of aquatic animal viruses within the current
virus classification and taxonomic context thereby allowing the reader to draw on the
principles of general virology. This book is a systematic and concise resource useful to anyone
involved with or looking to move into aquaculture and fisheries. Clinical veterinarians
aquaculture disease practitioners biologists farmers and all those in industry government
or academia who are interested in aquatic animal virology will find this book extremely useful.
