Thomas L. Wellborn, Jr.

Proposed Guidelines For States Planning Fish Disease Control Programs

When given the task of discussing guidelines for fish disease legislation, it occurred to me that a brief review of the history of the current laws, both good and bad, governing fish diseases might be in order. However, this idea was quickly discarded because the history of fish disease control in the United States is short and dates only from the mid-1950's, and its study serves only to point out the sparsity of control measures and their general lack of uniformity. I was struck by the close parallel of the early development of animal disease control and the present state of the struggle...