Bacterial isolates No. of isolates Hatch 1 % of isolates Hatch 1 No. of isolates Hatch 2 % of isolates Hatch 2 No. of isolates Hatch 3 % of isolates Hatch 3 Total No. of isolates % of isolates Escherichia coli 7 50 4 50 7 46.6 18 48.6 Streptococcus spp. 1 7.1 - - 1 6.6 2 5.4 Staphylococcus spp. 2 14.2 2 25 4 26.6 8 21.6 Pseudomonas spp. 4 28.5 2 25 3 20 9 24.3 Total   100%   100   100%   100%

Table 1: Numbers and percentages of bacterial isolates from dead-in-shell embryos from three local hatcheries.