Title : Effects of dietary synbiotics on growth performance, immunity, and intestinal health of aquatic animals
Abstract:
Current aquaculture practice is toward sustainable, environment friendly and producing safe products to end user. However, disease becomes a limitation to the above mentioned aquaculture practices. Excessive use of antibiotics and chemotherapeutics is practice in aquaculture health management. The implication of excessive use of antibiotics leads to increasing of antibiotic resistance cases among pathogenic bacteria from aquaculture sites and seeping to food chain. Last but not the least; cost is another key determinant for the applicability of the product. In fact, animal feed is one of the main expenditures in aquaculture, which typically accounts for more than 60% of the total expenditure in a fish farm. The intricate production method and the extensive research needed to validate treatment efficacy require sufficient funding. Therefore, the production of cost-effective yet high-quality feed has been a primary agenda for the industry. Therefore plant herbal could be promising supplements added to fortify the existing animal feed attributed to their multiple potentials in promoting growth, strengthening immunity, and increasing the resistance of animals towards diseases and stresses. Thus, alternative method in aquaculture species health management should be applied instantly. So the aim of this study is effects of dietary synbiotics on growth performance, immunity, and intestinal health of aquatic animals
