Aquaculture are today one of the biggest food-producing sectors in the world. Over the recent decades there has been a great increase in intensity and commercialization of aquaculture production, which has led to an unavoidable growth in disease problems. This has again led to a global over consumption of antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals which have caused problems as pollution, resistance and enormous losses for the industry. Farming of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, was anticipated to be the new success in Norwegian aquaculture after salmon, but partly due to the global financial crisis, and partly to high mortality - including the early life stages - the success have not become as large as expected. The high density of marine larvae and biological waste during rearing might contribute to high growth of opportunistic pathogenic bacteria, which could result in high larval mortality. Due to the fact that treatments with antibacterial agents are not favourable, and since vaccination is not possible due to the immature immune system of larvae, there has been carried out various studies to find new alternative treatments for the early life stages of cod and other marine species. The aim of this thesis is to enhance the knowledge of probiotics and test the possibility to use probiotics as an alternative for antibiotics in cod larval rearing facilities. In the present work a multi-dish system was used as a model for bath challenge experiment, and the species challenged with Vibrio anguillarum HI610 and different types of probiotics were cod egg/larvae. Cod eggs delivered from a commercial hatchery were randomly selected and placed separately in wells in a multi-dish system. Each well is seen as an independent unit and contained 2 ml of 80% aerated sterile seawater. After the eggs were placed in the wells, the wells were challenged with high dose (approximately 106 CFU ml-1) of different probiotic strains alone, and together with high dose (approximately 106 CFU ml-1) Vibrio anguillarum HI610. There were done experiments at 7°C and 13°C (15°C). The experiments did also include a negative control group consisting of unchallenged larvae and a positive control with only high dose Vibrio anguillarum HI610. The day hatching reached 50% was defined as day 0, and every day from day 0 and for as long as the experiment carried on, the mortality was registered. In the present work there were used one pathogen Vibrio anguillarum HI610 and there were tested eight probiotics: Phaeobacter 27-4, the mutant JBB1001, Phaeobacter M23-3.1, Ruegeria F1926, Ruegeria M43-2.1, Phaeobacter gallaeciensis BS107-wt, the mutant Phaeobacter gallaeciensis BS107-Pda8 and AQ10 a Pseudoalteromonas citrea. The results are introduced in graphs made in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 showing cumulative mortality in percent (%) per days post hatch (dph) for every challenge group. The mortality data showed that the pathogenic bacteria Vibrio anguillarum HI610 gives a high and rapidly mortality soon post hatch. The probiotics alone did not harm the larvae and could show a slightly positive effect on the normal mortality. The use of the probiotics together with V.anguillarum HI610 enhanced an inhibitory effect against the pathogenic bacteria Vibrio anguillarum HI610 and/or almost eradication of the effect of the pathogenic bacteria when added at the same time or when the probiotics were added 48hours prior to the addition of the..