“…Since 1969 this disease has economically damaged the yellowtail, Seriola quinqueradiata (Temminck & Schlegel), aquaculture industry in Japan (Kitao 1993). Furthermore, pasteurellosis has also damaged cultured gilthead seabream and seabass in Europe (Toranzo, Barreiro, Casal, Figueras, Magariños & Barja 1991; Magariños, Toranzo & Romalde 1996), striped bass in the USA (Hawke, Plakas, Minton, McPhearson, Snider & Guarino 1987), and snakehead (Tung, Tsai, Ho, Huang & Chen 1985), cobia (Liu, Lin & Lee 2003) and hybrid striped bass (Huang, Tu, Chuang, Hung, Su & Lin 2001) in Taiwan.…”