Category: Shrimp diseases

Mexico laments survivals of 50% in farmed shrimp…70% in nursery and then 70% in grow-out is totally normal…

https://seafood.media/fis/worldnews/worldnews.asp?l=e&ndb=1&id=135315

Learning that a shrimp survival of 50% is totally normal would go a long way to people whinging and whining about diseases…

Biosecurity: Reducing the burden of prawn disease… Subasinghe et al

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jwas.12966

PrawnMaster observation number one: “increase of pathogens in the environment and the perpetuation of diseases in the area.” is not applicable for the latest responsible zero discharge RAS shrimp technology and that are effectively biosecure quarantine facilities.

So a rethink of if “US SPF is the only way forward”…

Aussie prawn farmers learning to live with disease – finally the understanding about endemic vectors and taking a leaf out of Ecuadorian shrimp husbandry…

https://www.globalseafood.org/advocate/australian-shrimp-growers-demonstrate-how-to-farm-black-tigers-with-wssv-knocking-on-their-door/