Welcome to the Fish Health Section of the American Fisheries Society

• Maintain an association of persons involved in safe-guarding the health of fish and other aquatic animals.
• Focus attention on aquatic animal health issues through research, national and international meetings, education and dissemination of appropriate information to the public.
• Encourage effective fish health practices through communication and cooperation with government and private interests.

• The Fish Health Newsletter is a quarterly publication, posted on our website, that provides an avenue to report case studies and topics of interest in fish health in a non-peer-reviewed format and informs members of FHS activities.
• The Fish Health Update List-serve is distributed electronically and provides members with updates on employment, meetings and workshops, interesting reports of Fish Health in the news, and helpful resources on a more frequent basis.  If you have any suggestions regarding the List-serve, please contact Jerri Bartholomew.
• Bluebook - Suggested Procedures for the Detection and Identification of Certain Finfish and Shellfish Pathogens.
• Annual meetings and special workshops that provide avenues for discussing and presenting specialties, new ideas and techniques.
• The AFS Membership Directory provides a means to contact other AFS members.