Shrimp

Cyclone Amphan has compounded the miseries of the shrimp industry in Bengal, which was already reeling under the severe blow of the coronavirus-related lockdown.

Bayer Animal Health has increased its presence in shrimp aquaculture through securing supply and distribution agreements with water treatment technology suppliers, Cytozyme Laboratories and Chengdu Kehonda Technology, as…

Initiatives including the increased use of insect meal in its feeds, the provision of training programmes for small aquaculture farmers in SE Asia and improving the sustainability of global reduction fisheries are among …

Northern Australian aquaculture is set to increase its production five-fold and exceed $1.34 billion (US$886 million) in value within the next decade.

As Benchmark’s shrimp facility in Florida begins to gear up towards commercial production, Oscar Hennig, operations director of Benchmark Genetics’ shrimp-breeding programme – who has been in the shrimp sector for nearly…

Gujarat’s shrimp aquaculture sector, which produced around 45,000 tonnes in 2019, faces a reduction in annual production of up to 40 percent, due to the chaos caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vietnam's agriculture ministry has urged authorities in the country’s provinces bordering China to take preventative measures against the spread of decapod iridescent virus 1, in order to protect the Vietnamese shrimp fa…

Urgent action to ensure long-term viability of Brazil’s most important domestic source of Artemia has been called for – both to sustain a valuable ingredient for the local aquaculture sector and to ensure a continued liv…

India’s shrimp sector needs to develop its own supplies of larval feed and seed stocks, according to a new report.

Willem van der Pijl, the founder and former editor of ShrimpTales, has announced plans to publish two open access reports on the global shrimp farming sector a year.

Myanmar’s aquaculture and fisheries sectors are suffering from the collapse in the export trade that has accompanied the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A new method to help food safety, quality and aquaculture labs simultaneously and accurately perform same-day testing for all five targeted antibiotic residues in farmed shrimp has been launched this week.

A project that uses sophisticated software to assess feed attractability in vannamei shrimp has won one of this year’s three hotly contested Nutreco Young Researchers Prizes.

A new “fish-free” feed formulation holds promise for helping vannamei shrimp resist early mortality syndrome.

White spot disease has been discovered at two shrimp farms in Queensland, prompting fears for the state’s entire shrimp sector.

BioMar and Viet-UC, Vietnam’s leading shrimp hatchery, have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the intention of jointly owning and operating a new shrimp feed factory.

The cascading effect of the coronavirus pandemic have had a striking impact on marine trade in India – aquaculturists have been losing their livelihoods, and experts are expecting more disruption to come

The salmon and shrimp sectors have been affected very differently by the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, according to Gorjan Nikolik, senior seafood analyst at Rabobank.

An outbreak of decapod iridescent virus 1 (Div1) has broken out in the Chinese province of Guangdong, putting many shrimp farmers’ livelihoods at risks.

Nearly 90 percent of the soybean meal (SBM) used in shrimp diets could be replaced by the comparatively cheap cottonseed meal (CSM) without adversely impacting shrimp performance.