Health & Welfare
Do probiotics work in aquaculture?
Probiotics administered in feeds provide competitive exclusion of pathogenic bacteria, create conditions unfavorable for pathogens and modulate intestinal immune responses.
Health & Welfare
Multiple characteristics considered in selection of probiotics for marine shrimp
To develop probiotics for marine shrimp, authors chose a bacterium with high growth velocity and great capacity to inhibit pathogens, among other traits.
Health & Welfare
Artemia bioencapsulation delivers probiotics via digestive tracts of fish larvae
Research with sturgeon and carp species indicated that encapsulated artemia has high potential to carry probiotics or other beneficial microorganisms.
Health & Welfare
Prebiotics, probiotics provide alternatives to antibiotics
As the demand for aquaculture products increases, so does the search for environmentally friendly alternatives to antibiotics. Alternatives to antibiotics include dietary prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics.
Aquafeeds
Varied feed additives improve gut, animal health
There is increasing evidence that natural feed additives can have beneficial effects on aquaculture animals by supporting well-balanced gut microflora and improving gut health.
Health & Welfare
Probiotics and disease control in aquaculture
The use of probiotics in aquaculture is steadily gaining momentum, supplementing or replacing the use of antimicrobial compounds in disease control.
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Probiotics help control recurrent bacteria
Studies at a commercial sturgeon farm that experienced serious disease effects from varied bacterial pathogens in fish yielded positive results for probiotic treatments.
Health & Welfare
Probiotics found ineffective against Vibrio harveyi in limited-exchange shrimp pond survey
In a study, three probiotics applied to shrimp pond water throughout a culture period were not effective in preventing Vibrio harveyi outbreaks.
Health & Welfare
Reviewing the safety of aquaculture probiotics
Probiotics are naturally occurring microbes in cultured animals or their environments that compete with bacterial pathogens to favorably alter the rearing environment and improve animal health. The success of a probiotic strain depends not only upon its stated and actual performance, but also its safety to the target organism, humans, and the surrounding environment.
Health & Welfare
Selection of probiotics for marine larviculture
Probiotics for marine larviculture offer an alternative to the prophylactic use of antibiotics in aquaculture, which may lead to drug-resistance.
Responsibility
Probiotics’ enhancement of soil, water quality examined
Probiotics used as bottom soil and water quality enhancers are primarily cultures of living bacteria, enzyme preparations, or the two combined.
Health & Welfare
Proactive health management using probiotics in marine fish hatcheries
Evidence that the use of probiotics is beneficial to survival of high-value tropical species of marine fish remains largely anecdotal.
Health & Welfare
Efficacy of probiotics in grow-out systems
An aquaculture probiotic is a bacterial supplement to manipulate microbial communities in the water and to improve growth and survival of the cultured species.