What Roles Do The Probiotics And Prebiotics Play In Aquaculture?

Like other agriculture, fish farming, and sheep farming, aquaculture is also a type of farming that rears, breeds, and harvests aquatic species, both plants and animals, in aquatic environments such as rivers, lakes, oceans, ponds, and streams. It serves different purposes—restoration of threatened and endangered species, food production, wild stock population enhancement, etc. When it comes to roles played by probiotics and prebiotics aquaculture in Washington, they include the following: 

• Probiotics have diverse modes of action in living organisms. They stick with the mucosal epithelium of the gastrointestinal tract, such as Brevibacillus brevis, lactic acid bacteria, Lactococcus fluvial, and Vibrio harveyi, and help to resist pathogens. Moreover, they enhance the digestibility of food in the form of enzymes, such as alginate lyases, amylases, and proteases. They also boost the production of nutrients, for example, fatty acids, biotin, and vitamin B12, which have a good effect on animals' health. 

• Prebiotics are indigestible food ingredients that selectively and beneficially affect the host by stimulating the activity and growth of one or a limited number of bacteria in the colon. In fact, they work as a growth factor for specific commensal bacteria that inhibit the invasion or adhesion of pathogenic microorganisms in the colon epithelium by competing for the same glycoconjugates found on the surface of epithelial cells and changing the pH of the colon. 

• When it comes to water probiotics in aquaculture in USA, they help to improve water quality due to their ability to participate in the turnover of organic nutrients in aquaculture. Organic enrichment and nitrogenous wastes, including ammonium and ammonia (NH3), are a serious concern in aquaculture, for example, in pond rearing of catfish. There is a strong tendency to combine different photosynthetic bacteria, Bacillus, nitrifiers, and denitrifiers together; therefore, probiotics are often labeled as multifunctional and can be applied to various species under diverse culture conditions. Apart from these, probiotics are more efficient in transforming the organic matter to CO2; therefore, it is suggested to maintain their high levels in production ponds to reduce the organic carbon load and to enhance the water quality and fish health.

At Aquaintech Inc., we do aquaculture in Washington. The foundation of our company was laid in 1996 to commercialize the first vaccine for farmed shrimps. We were also the first company to have successfully tested and marketed a non-specific immune stimulant for shrimp.  

Briefly Put!

Both probiotics and prebiotics aquaculture in Washington play a major role. Without their roles, aquaculture is not possible at all, and aquatic life cannot survive.