40th Annual Conference of the International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine - 2009

Les Dalton and Steve Osborn of SeaWorld San Antonio have been preparing diligently for our arrival since before last year's meeting, and they are eager to make this a productive, informative, fun-filled, and memorable conference. We have 103 abstracts in the proceedings, comprised of 24 poster and 79 oral presentations, including 34 by students of various stripes (undergraduate, graduate, veterinary and post-doctoral students, and interns and residents). Although we continue as group to incline strongly towards marine mammal content, the presentation line-up also includes marine and freshwater invertebrates, teleost and elasmobranch fishes, amphibians, sea and freshwater turtles, aquatic birds and freshwater mammals, making the IAAAM conference a taxonomically well rounded forum for advancing the broad discipline of aquatic animal medicine. This conference provides an important mechanism for the free exchange of knowledge, which will lead to the improvement of health care and husbandry of domesticated aquatic animals and the proper management of wild aquatic animal resources. All who work with and care about aquatic animals are indebted to those who have given so freely of their time and talent to present these abstracts and manuscripts at this conference, so that we may share and increase our knowledge and understanding of aquatic animal medicine and health. The papers and data contained in these Proceedings are the property of the authors and shall not be reproduced in any manner without the author's prior permission. The abstracts and manuscripts in these Proceedings were not subject to peer review. The International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, Proceedings Editor, and Session Chairpersons are not responsible for the content of these papers. Questions should be directed to the authors.

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