Intelligence
Color can impact the price of shrimp, with dark red preferred in some markets. Research using colorimeters to quantify color in raw and cooked shrimp found that although shrimp raised on white or black substrates exhibited different coloration, total carotenoid levels were the same in all the animals.
Health & Welfare
In Australia, CSIRO is investigating techniques to produce reproductively sterile, all-female shrimp populations through polyploidy, irradiation, or genetic engineering.
Responsibility
In shrimp farming it is critical to ensure that residual nitrogen waste is minimized or eliminated prior to discharge into receiving waters.