There has been increasing interest in the use of beneficial bacteria (probiotic bacteria) to exclude bacterial pathogens in the intensive aquaculture of bivalve mollusk seed, shrimp postlarvae, and larval fish. As our work and that of others have shown, marine bacterial strains with probiotic… More

Marine fish, shrimp and shellfish are produced from marine hatcheries and nurseries but, to date, the inevitable bacterial colonization of these systems has been an uncontrolled variable. Proposed Phase II research builds on very promising Phase I laboratory studies showing that beneficial… More