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• Aquaculture is a rapidly expanding industry both inMalaysia and world wide• The ultimate goal : To produce the greatest possibleweight per culture unit which leads to intensive fishculture• The incidence of diseases increases as a result ofvarious stressors such as– over crowding– Handling– poor water quality– Others• Many major groups of bacteria have cause diseaseoutbreaks in farmed fish resulting serious economiclosses to the industry