“…The administration of dietary feed additives, such as medicinal plants, as alternates to antibiotics, has increased in response to recent dramatic growth seen in the aquaculture industry worldwide (Adel et al., 2020; Citarasu, 2010; Ghehdarijani et al., 2016; Saleh, Ismail, Sayed, Zaghloul, & Saleh, 2020; Santos et al., 2019). Furthermore, the increase noticed in the use of these additives is due to the fact that they can be easily prepared, they are cheap, and they have limited undesirable effects on either fish or the environment (Adel, Pourgholam, et al, 2016; Adel, Sakineh Yeganeh, Dadar, Sakai, & Dawood, 2016; Banaee, Sureda, Mirvaghefi, & Rafei, 2011; Van Hai, 2015).…”