Health & Welfare
Disease and shrimp farming
The slipping shrimp production in Southeast Asia due to disease has a number of causes. Emerging viral diseases take a toll, as do bacterial diseases caused by vibrios and other pathogens.
Health & Welfare
WSSV and TSV: Diseases as drivers in the shrimp-farming industry
Key to avoiding the cyclical rise and fall of production and prices is the move toward controlled reproduction of shrimp to perform within the structure chosen, whether that is disease coping or disease avoidance.
Health & Welfare
History of shrimp farming
The Shrimp Book, published in 2010, brings together experts from around the world to fill the critical need for a central reference source on the state of shrimp production practices.
Intelligence
Shrimp farming in Brazil
Shrimp farming in Brazil grew rapidly from the late 1990s to 2003. Brazil can again become a global leader, for it has 600,000 ha of suitable area with excellent natural conditions and infrastructure, and a large internal market.
Intelligence
Paradigm shifts in shrimp farming
In the evolution of shrimp farming, white shrimp emerged as the primary species. While some farms in the Americas successfully converted to intensive practices, wide adoption has been limited.
Intelligence
Shrimp farming in Bangladesh
As Bangladesh strives for gains in exports, its shrimp industry is addressing production efficiency, disease control and responsible development.
Responsibility
Shrimp farming in Indonesia
In Indonesia, shrimp farming practices vary somewhat from region to region depending on the local conditions and financial pressures.
Health & Welfare
Ecuador develops GIS-assisted alert system for shrimp farming
Geographic information systems provide analysis of spatial and temporal datasets in a cartographic form and allow database query and modeling at the same time.
Innovation & Investment
Sustainable and profitable shrimp farming in Saudi Arabia
A team of engineers and specialists has built an intensive shrimp farm in Saudi Arabia, proving sustainability doesn’t have to adversely affect profitability.
Intelligence
Shrimp farming in New Caledonia
Shrimp farming in New Caledonia has an important economic impact, through exports and by providing jobs in rural areas.
Intelligence
Changing paradigms in shrimp farming, part 6
The final factor in developing a heterotrophic system is the amount of organic material being fed to a pond, and the carbon per nitrogen balance of that material.
Intelligence
Changing paradigms in shrimp farming, part 4
In high-density systems with zero water exchange, pond ecology shifts from an autotrophic, phytoplankton-based microbial community to a heterotrophic, bacterial-based community.
Intelligence
Changing paradigms in shrimp farming, part 3
Square-shaped and deep ponds may explain partially why Belize Aquaculture is able to produce a large amount of shrimp on a unit area basis.
Intelligence
Changing paradigms in shrimp farming, part 5
A zero-water-exchange strategy to produce shrimp reduces the effluents and sediments that would normally be released to the environment by a typical intensive shrimp farm.
Intelligence
Changing paradigms in shrimp farming, part 2
The focus at Belize Aquaculture Ltd. was to use clean animals that perform well at high densities and in waters with high nutrient loads.
Intelligence
Changing paradigms in shrimp farming, part 1
Conventional wisdom for farming white shrimp involves semi-intensive culture in large ponds, routine water exchange and reliance on wild broodstock.