Occurrence of parasites and diseases in oysters and mussels of U.S. coastal waters national status and trends, the Mussel Watch Monitoring Program

"This report provides both national and regional patterns of parasites and diseases that occur in mussels and oysters, which hold some important commercial and recreational values in the U.S. This first-ever national assessment of Mussel Watch histopathology monitoring data provides coastal managers and the public with an overview of the most recent (2008-2009) conditions, and historical trends since collection of histopathology parameters began in 1995. Because contaminants, pathogens and parasite infection in bivalves have some link-ages, correlations between contaminant body burdens and occurrence of histopathology parameters were also determined"--Executive summary. authors, Dennis A. Apeti, Gunnar Lauenstein, Rob Warner, Yungkul Kim, Jamila Tull. "March 2014." System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Includes bibliographical references (pages 49-52). 2014 NOS (National Ocean Service) NCCOS (National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science) Library Public Domain 1935