“…In the wild, Florida pompano can host numerous pathogens. Some are acquired through their diet of crustaceans, bivalve mollusks, and other marine invertebrates (Froese & Pauly, 2021;Iverson & Berry, 1969) & Brown, 1970;Pinto, Vicente, & Noronha, 1984;Ribeiro, de São Clemente, Lopes, & Knoff, 2014;S anchez-Ramírez & Vidal-Martinez, 2002), while others such as small crustacean parasites (Bunkley- Williams, Williams, & Bashirullah, 2006;Parker & Booth, 2013) and monogenean trematodes (Kohn, Santos, & Baptista, 1992;Kohn, Santos, & Lebedev, 1996;S anchez-Ramírez & Vidal-Martínez, 2002) can be transmitted directly from fish to fish, especially during spawning.…”