Probiotics and its application in mariculture

Aquaculture is a multidisciplinary activity, more complex than agriculture due to the multidimensional aquatic medium. The aquaculture boom and increased sodo-economic benefits together with increase in extent and intensity of aquaculture are alleged to have created several problems, particularly those of deteriorating water and soil quality and outbreak of diseases (Kutty, 1999). For example, the global production of farmed shrimp has doubled in the past 15 years