Sustainable Ornamental Fish Aquaculture: The Implication of Microbial Feed Additives.
- 2023-05-09
- Animals : an open access journal from MDPI 13(10)
- Seyed Hossein Hoseinifar
- Francesca Maradonna
- Mehwish Faheem
- Ramasamy Harikrishnan
- Gunapathy Devi
- Einar Ringø
- Hien Van Doan
- Ghasem Ashouri
- Giorgia Gioacchini
- Oliana Carnevali
- PubMed: 37238012
- DOI: 10.3390/ani13101583
Study Design
- Type
- Review
Ornamental fish trade represents an important economic sector with an export turnover that reached approximately 5 billion US dollars in 2018. Despite its high economic importance, this sector does not receive much attention. Ornamental fish husbandry still faces many challenges and losses caused by transport stress and handling and outbreak of diseases are still to be improved. This review will provide insights on ornamental fish diseases along with the measures used to avoid or limit their onset. Moreover, this review will discuss the role of different natural and sustainable microbial feed additives, particularly probiotics, prebiotics, and synbiotics on the health, reduction in transport stress, growth, and reproduction of farmed ornamental fish. Most importantly, this review aims to fill the informational gaps existing in advanced and sustainable practices in the ornamental fish production.