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No. The rare exception to this could occur occasionally in the hatchery (larval) phase when antibiotics may be used. Increasingly growers are utilizing hatchery raised seed, rather than relying on wild-caught seed. In this case, antibiotics may, on rare occasion, be used in the earliest stages of larval development.
