Aquaculture and antibiotics should there be more control?

With the issues facing the meal and poultry industry where antibiotics are over used, could this be said of the aquaculture industry. Recently a paper was published in The Journal of Infectious Diseases, referring to a possible drug resistant bacterial strain called Salmonella Kentucky ST198 and that it might be connected to fish farming. This strain has been spreading since 2002, a recent study suggest that it might have come into African chickens via drug use in integrated aquaculture systems. Read more ...

This blog is written by Martin Little, The Aquaculturists, published and supported by the International Aquafeed Magazine from Perendale Publishers.