To be presented at IAAAM Banquet, April 29, 1971.

Disease and disease control in aquatic mammals can draw upon a well developed technology elaborated for terrestrial mammals, whereas interesting new problems of stress, mass treatments, temperature effects, nutrition, and histopathology arise when the fishes are considered. The rapidly expanding field of fish pathology has many urgent present needs, including those for consolidation and publication of information on diagnosis and treatment, of more diagnostic centers, and greater representation in schools of veterinary medicine. Significant problems associated with effects of increasing pollution levels on aquatic populations also deserve much greater attention, as do disease problems generated by increased production of ma rine and fresh water species by aquaculture. The market condition for skills in aquatic animal pathology can be described as healthy, with a favorable prognosis.