Probiotics give boost to tilapia broodstock

摘要

Agroup of researchers, led by Professor Oliana Carnevali of the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences at the Polytechnic University of Marche, in Ancona, on the Adriatic Sea, found what it termed "significant" benefits from administering the probiotic Lactobacillus rhamnosus IMC501, on the fecundity of Nile tilapia {Oreochromis niloticits) broodstock.A poster presentation by Carnevali at the European Aquaculture Society conference in Spain last fall summarized a 30-day study carried out at a tilapia-breeding research and development fish farm in Vietnam. Improvements were recorded in a number of assessed parameters, compared to a control group of tilapia broodstock that didn't receive the micro-granulates.