Patent ID: 8748124

Claim:
A biodegradation process comprising: mixing a marine animal or marine animal by-product with a microbial composition comprising the microbes in ATCC Patent Deposit Designation PTA-10861 to form a mixture; fermenting said mixture; and separating said mixture into solid, aqueous and lipid fractions; wherein said microbes comprise Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus cereus, Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus megaterium, Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus casei, Pseudomonas fluorescens, Trichoderma harzianum, Rhizobium japonicum, Azotobacter vinelandii, Clostridium pasteurianum, Proteus vulgaris, Streptomyces sp., Nitrobacter sp. and Micrococcus sp.