Aquafeeds
Feed study tests vegetable replacements for marine ingredients
Aquafeed study showed that an experimental diet with low levels of vegetable replacements for marine ingredients still produced acceptable results.
Health & Welfare
OceanBoy Farms: Challenges of inland, freshwater production of shrimp in Florida
OceanBoy Farms in Southern Central Florida has been a leader in establishing commercial protocols for inland, low-salinity shrimp farms.
Intelligence
Shrimp farming in Madagascar
Most potential sites for future shrimp farming are located on the western coast of Madagascar, on large, flat, and relatively bare salt marshes called “tannes.”
Health & Welfare
Shrimp genetic improvement in Mexico
Genetic improvement will play a key role in the further development of the ongoing domestication of shrimp, important for the industry's long-term acceptance.
Health & Welfare
Improved shrimp larviculture using diatoms
Progressive hatchery operators recognize the benefits of adding benthic pennate diatoms of the genera Amphora and Navicula to their larviculture tanks.
Responsibility
Polyculture of tilapia and penaeid shrimp
Tilapia-shrimp polyculture may provide an opportunity to re-establish a profitable and more sustainable aquaculture system at these dormant facilities.
Health & Welfare
WSSV scare in Australia
Australia’s prawn industry has encountered its first scare over white spot syndrome virus (WSSV) following positive test results in the northern territories.
Intelligence
Australian farmers diversify with local shrimp species
Australia has a diverse and abundant fauna of local shrimp but only P. monodon, P. japonicus and P. merguiensis are farmed there.
Intelligence
Shrimp product diversification in Japan and the United States during the 1990s
A study of shrimp exports showed increasing product diversification and demand for value-added shrimp products.
Health & Welfare
Raceway nursery production increases shrimp survival and yields in Ecuador
The use of intensive raceway nursery systems to produce juvenile shrimp under biosecure conditions is an important WSSV management tool.
Health & Welfare
Shrimp immunity and disease control
Some lesser-understoood shrimp immune functions may become tools for improved disease control in the future.
Health & Welfare
Environmental factors affect immune response and resistance in crustaceans
Environmental stresses affect the immune response of shrimp in a dose-dependent way, increasing susceptibility to disease.
Health & Welfare
Pond-condition improvements used to manage WSSV in Peru
An experiment with WSSV in Peru produced good survival rates in an area where the virus is established and where other efforts have failed.
Aquafeeds
Advances in shrimp postlarval nutrition
A variety of factors – postlarval nutrition, disease treatment and control of microflora – contribute to optimal hatchery operations.
Health & Welfare
Genetic improvement of the Pacific white shrimp at The Oceanic Institute
Critical to the success of genetic improvement and the breeding program at OI is the use of specific pathogen free (SPF) shrimp stocks.
Responsibility
Mechanical pond water circulation: A new approach to shrimp farming
Circulation makes use of the very large amount of dissolved oxygen present on the pond's surface and distributes it down to the bottom.