Includes bibliographical references and index.

Aquatic environment and life support systems / Sherry Kasper, Olanike K. Adeyemo, Trista Becker, David Scarfe, and Julius Tepper -- Taxonomy, anatomy and physiology / Matt Longshaw, Wesley Baumgartner, Trista Becker Welsh, James E. Bogan, Jr., Erdem Danyer, Sherry Kasper, Nicole Marie Nemeth, Adolf Maas, and Acacia Alcivar-Warren -- Husbandry and industries / Trista Becker Welsh, Olanike K. Adeyemo, Erdem Danyer, and Nicholas Saint-Erne -- Pathology of aquatic animal diseases -- Epidemiology of aquatic animal diseases -- Diagnostics and treatment of aquatic animal diseases / Richmond Loh, James E. Bogan, Jr., Mansour El-Matbouli, Soliman Hatem, Jack Kottwitz, Nicholas Saint-Erne, Mona Saleh, and Vasile Vulpe -- Clinical veterinary experience and client communication / Richmond Loh, Laura Urdes, and Vasile Vulpe -- Public health, zoonoses and seafood safety / Olanike K. Adeyemo and Leo Foyle -- Legislation, regulations and policies / Myron Kebus and Chris Walster -- Principles of aquatic animal welfare / Laura Urdes and Chris Walster

"The WAVMA Aquatic Veterinarian Certification (CertAqV) Program identifies the core competency or subject matter areas needed to practice aquatic veterinary medicine (including mammals, amphibians, fish and invertebrates), and recognises those veterinarians who have acquired the necessary knowledge, skills and experience (KSE) from a variety of sources, in the 9 core subject matter areas as outlined in the table of contents. Aquatic Veterinary Medicine will be mapped against the WAVMA CertAqV curriculum. All three authors are WAVMA certified and are involved with the organisation and are also Past-Presidents. Contributors will also be WAVMA certified and involved in someway with the organisation so this will add to the credibility of the book. It also focuses on day one competencies as outlined by the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) -- these recommendations on the competencies have been developed to provide the minimum competencies required by graduating veterinarians to assure the highest quality of National Veterinary Services"--