The homogenates were sesially diluted with a sterile phosphate buffer, and 1.0 ml aliquots of the dilutes were poured into aerobic plate count (APC) agar containing 0.5% NaCl. Bacterial colonieswere counted after the plates were incubated at 35c for 48 h. Triplicates were taken for bacterial numbers in the mahi-mahi samples were expressed as log10 colony forming units (CFU)/g.