Application of Yucca Extract in Aquaculture

In aquaculture, a large amount of waste, including excess feed, excrement, and feces from the farmed species, as well as nitrogen and phosphorus nutrients released from internal sediments and bottom sludge, overloads the water with nutrients. This pollution exceeds the water body's natural ability to cleanse itself, leading to excessive phytoplankton growth, which depletes dissolved oxygen in the water, deteriorates water quality, reduces transparency, and results in mass fish and shrimp deaths. This imbalance disrupts the aquatic ecosystem, limiting the sustainable development of aquaculture.

The main components of yucca extract include saponins, polysaccharides, yuccaols, and resveratrol. Yucca extract has strong adsorption abilities for harmful gases, helps regulate gut microflora, promotes cell nutrition, reduces ammonia emissions from farmed animals, improves the living environment of livestock and poultry, and enhances immune system function.

What are the benefits of using yucca extract in aquaculture?

Adding yucca extract promotes the non-specific immune response in juvenile turbot.

Yucca extract significantly reduces the total ammonia nitrogen levels in freshwater fish farming.

It can also noticeably improve the growth rate of channel catfish fingerlings and reduce ammonia concentrations in the water.

Adding yucca extract to feed increases the growth rate of tilapia, improves feed efficiency, and boosts the protein content of the fish.

Yucca extract reduces total ammonia nitrogen levels in shrimp farming, lowers ammonia concentrations, improves water quality, increases shrimp daily weight gain and feed conversion rate, inhibits the growth of Vibrio bacteria, prevents the invasion of white spot virus, and improves shrimp survival rates.