Patent ID: 9078458
Filing Date: 2015-07-14
Classification: A23K,A61K,C12N

Abstract:
1. A composition for producing a feeding response in a target/predator fish comprising: i) at least one bacterial species from a source/feeder fish or fishes, which bacterial species is typically associated with the source/feeder fish, and wherein said bacterial species stimulates the feeding response in said target/predator fish; ii) a pharmaceutically or veterinarily acceptable excipient, diluent or vehicle; and iii) a high protein food source which is unpalatable to the target fish when the bacterial species is not part of the composition; and wherein the target/predator fish exhibits the feeding response when it is exposed to the composition because the target/predator fish tastes or smells the bacterial species; and wherein the bacterial species is chemically inactivated; and wherein the feeding response persists such that the predator fish not only initially samples or consumes the composition, but continues to consume and subsist upon the composition; made by the steps of: