Discuss the potential effects diseases have on overall ecosystem health. Provide specific examples for each potential effect. 

In the shrimp aquaculture industry, White Spot Syndrome Virus was first recognized in 1992 and is believed to have been spread throughout southeast Asia by via movement of brood-stock in shrimp farming and also into the wild populations via farmed bait shrimp.

PPE (personal protective equipment – gloves, face shields, etc) is recommended when handling otters for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: 

Which term is NOT used to define odontocete groupings?

According to Dr Moore, which country has a more aggressive and strictly enforced approach to vessel speed restrictions to protect North Atlantic right whales? 

Considering the physical differences regarding epidemiology of pathogens in the land versus the sea, which of the following is true?

The long spine sea urchin became infected with a pathogen and the entire Caribbean became infected with this unknown pathogen in just 13 months.

Melanoides tuberculata, a cone-snail, is the most important definitive host of the C. formosanus life cycle.

Beluga whales have fused cervical vertebrae.

The only ondotocete known to stay within the same breeding pair for an extended period of time is the: