Probiotics are increasingly becoming popular as a tool in preventing bacterial infection in farmed shrimp. They are commercially available, within easy reach of fish farmers for use in their farms. Probiotics, as explained by svientist Celia Pitogo of the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center Aquaculture Department (SEAFDEC AQD), are composed of complementary benign bacteria added to feed our encapsulated to natural fish food.

Fernandez, R. A. (2000, September 8). Probiotics products for shrimp culture becoming very popular. The Philippine Star, p. B-2.