Products range from medicines and food to oil eating microbes used to clean up the environment.
Many of the plants and animals used in aquaculture biotechnology are common and have been used historically for many products we use routinely today. Seaweeds, for instance, are used for food, fertilizer, and medicine. Salad dressings, ice cream, and chocolate milk maintain their texture and inseparability due to the gels and thickeners extracted from algae. Other seaweed products are used in industry, farm animal and aquaculture feeds, medicinal treatments, wastewater treatment, and the recycling of gas products. Aquaculture biotechnology has also been instrumental in the design of new pharmaceuticals.