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Reproductive Failure of Landlocked Atlantic Salmon from New York's Finger Lakes: Investigations into the Etiology and Epidemiology of the “Cayuga Syndrome”

Creator:

Fisher, Jeffrey P., Spitsbergen, Jan M., Getchell, Rodman, Symula, John, Skea, Jack, Babenzein, Mark, and Chiotti, Thomas

Abstract:

We describe a disease syndrome that afflicts larval, landlocked Atlantic salmon Salmo salar from Cayuga Lake, one of central New York's Finger Lakes. Mortality associated with the “Cayuga syndrome” is 98–100%. Death usually occurs between 650 and 850 centigrade degree-days after fertilization, approximately 2–4 weeks before yolk resorption is complete....

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Article