Increasing demand of processed seafood product in international market, there is an ever mounting pressure on processing industry of Gujarat to increase the processing volume of seafood which in turn leads to increased effluent discharge to nearby area/water bodies. Several workers have reported the presence microbial contamination such as total aerobic counts,,, and in raw fish, processed fish products, utensils, workers hand, ice and water used in fish processing industries (Cann., 1981; Zuberi., 1983; Karunasagar and Karunasagar, 2000; Rashid, 2000, Bagge-Ravn., 2003; Hossain., 2010 and Sivaraman