Role of Probiotics Application in Aquaculture

Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food-producing sector. However, fish culture is currently suffering from the serious losses due to infectious diseases. As a result, probiotic use in aquaculture is rising in response to the need for environmentally friendly, sustainable aquaculture. Probiotic is a healthy substitute that can be utilized to increase aquaculture productivity in a sustainable manner. Their application has various benefits in aquaculture production as improves growth performance, enhance feed utilization, enhance the immune defense against the pathogens, improves disease resistance, improves water quality, enhance stress tolerance capacity. Probiotic use in aquaculture can therefore be utilized at the farm level to improve the species' economic performance.