Review Paper
Year: 2019 | Month: January | Volume: 6 | Issue: 1 | Pages: 95-99
Probiotics: A Pathway for Upgrading Aquaculture Sector
Prosenjit Pramanick1, Pavel Biswas1, Sufia Zaman1, Abhijit Mitra2
1Department of Oceanography, Techno India University, West Bengal, EM 4/1 Salt Lake, Sector V, Kolkata 700091
2Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, 35 B.C. Road, Kolkata 700019
Corresponding Author: Prosenjit Pramanick
ABSTRACT
Aquaculture is the farming of aquatic organisms (especially fish) that has acquired a special position in the global economic and livelihood panorama. The importance of the fishery sector grows days by day as its demand increases for human consumption. Therefore several types of artificial feed are applied for accelerating the growth and increasing the production rate. Now – a - days, probiotics (live microorganisms) are used in aquaculture for increasing the disease resistance power and improving the water quality. This review article summarizes the use of different types of probiotics in the aquaculture sector.
Key words: Aquaculture, artificial feed, probiotics
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