Project Information

Title: HRM Program: Herring Disease Program (HDP) 15120111-K

Project Year and Number: 2015: 15120111-K

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2024: 24120111-E , 2023: 23120111-E , 2022: 22120111-E , 2021: 21120111-E, 2020: 20120111-E, 2019: 19120111-E, 2018: 18120111-E, 2017: 17120111-E, 2016: 16120111-K, 2014: 14120111-K, 2013: 13120111-K, 2012: 12120111-K

Principal Investigator (PI): Paul Hershberger

Managing Agency: USGS

Assisting Personnel: None

Project Website: https://pwssc.org/herring-disease-research/

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Pacific Herring

Abstract:

The Herring Disease Program (HDP) is part of a larger integrated effort, Prince William Sound Research and Monitoring (outlined in a separated proposal by Dr. Scott Pegau). Within this integrated effort, the HDP is intended to evaluate the impact of infectious and parasitic diseases on the failed recovery of the PWS herring population. The framework for the 2012 – 2016 HDP involves a combination of field surveillance efforts, field-based disease process studies, and laboratory-based controlled studies. Field surveillance efforts will provide continued and expanded infection and disease prevalence data for herring populations in Prince William Sound (PWS), Sitka Sound, and Puget Sound. During FY 2015 we will continue the health assessments of adult herring from Prince William Sound and Sitka Sound, we will continue to rear colonies of specific-pathogen-free Pacific herring for controlled studies in the laboratory, we will compare the relative sensitivities or four newly-developed diagnostic assays that are capable of identifying prior exposure to VHS virus in Pacific herring. Additionally, by employing the qPCR and chromogenic in situ hybridization tools that were developed as products of the HDP, we will begin searching for intermediate invertebrate hosts for Ichthyophonus.


Proposal: View (33 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY15: View (573 KB)
Final Report: See Project 16120111-K

Publications from this Project: None Available