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07/17/10
OXFORD - It was more than a dozen years ago when Chesapeake Bay rockfish started turning up skinny and pockmarked with nasty skin lesions, and scientists are still figuring out what's going on. 
Pamela Wood — The Capital
Mark Matsche of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources cuts a rockfish open as he demonstrates a necropsy, or animal autopsy, at the Cooperative Oxford Lab on the Eastern Shore.Find Us On Facebook
Scientists soon determined the culprit was mycobacteriosis, a bacterial disease. But understanding how the bacteria works - how it spreads, how it sickens the fish, how it affects the overall fish population - is a mystery that's still being unraveled. "When people started getting these, that's what triggered everyone's attention," said Mark Matsche, a Maryland Department of Natural Resources biologist,...
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Rockfish - 2010-07-17 11:50:44
Bacterial diseases can come from contaminated water. For over 6yrs. we have cured thousands of fish just from "good clean water". No chemicals, No drugs. Our coal purification process has also worked with "Purging" seafood, crabs, catfish. Will work in both fresh and saltwater.
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