diff --git a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/PipeConfig/NcbiBlastReIndexer_conf.pm b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/PipeConfig/NcbiBlastReIndexer_conf.pm
index 78fc86c947d2adccfe60874805cf0843d19c7afd..c40225337374b069197c00f0a859ffc6f562ae96 100644
--- a/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/PipeConfig/NcbiBlastReIndexer_conf.pm
+++ b/modules/Bio/EnsEMBL/Pipeline/PipeConfig/NcbiBlastReIndexer_conf.pm
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ sub default_options {
       # inherit other stuff from the base class
       %{ $self->SUPER::default_options() }, 
       
+      # 'registry'  => '',  # registry file still needed for all species
       # 'fa_dir'    => '',  # locate where the current fa files to look for are
       # 'base_path' => '',  # where do you want your files
       
@@ -77,6 +78,12 @@ sub pipeline_wide_parameters {
   };
 }
 
+# override the default method, to force an automatic loading of the registry in all workers
+sub beekeeper_extra_cmdline_options {
+    my $self = shift;
+    return "-reg_conf ".$self->o("registry");
+}
+
 sub resource_classes {
   my $self = shift;
   return {