Challenging Pacific white postlarvae with AHPND

Stirling researchers confirm chasm between perceived perils of farmed shrimp consumption and actual risks

Shrimp producers can apply relatively simple in vitro analyses, like the ones used in this study, to help make adequate management decisions to reduce

Marcela Salazar, Benchmark’s shrimp production manager and one of the pioneers of shrimp genetics, explains how shrimp breeding programmes have evolved

Aquatic environments have abundant pathogenic organisms, and farmed fish species can be susceptible to several diseases caused by these pathogens

EHP, an intracellular microsporidian that replicates within the cytoplasm of the affected tubule epithelial cells in the hepatopancreas

The shrimp industry is one of the dominant consumers of fishmeal in the aquaculture sector and to meet demand for a growing industry in the face of a finite

James Cook University scientists have discovered that shrimp help heal injured fish.

A patented shrimp production system designed for use in in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) may increase shrimp survival rates compared

Here she explains how adaptability and the development of new production systems, as well as new feeds and health products, is essential to stay ahead of

The shrimp sector can do more to limit the impact of those disease challenges that form the sector’s largest constraint.

Indonesia has announced plans to bring over 300,000 hectares former shrimp farming ponds back into production, in a bid to improve its seafood yields

A new study demonstrates that using probiotics when producing white shrimp larvae – not just in the grow-out stage – can help reduce emissions of greenhouse

The giant river prawn (Macrobrachium rosenbergii) fetches excellent prices in seafood markets across Asia.

The accidental discovery of the antibiotic penicillin, by Alexander Fleming in the late 1920s, reshaped human and animal medicine

Skretting has developed a new diet for shrimp that it claims achieves faster gut transit time, enables increased feed intake while retaining FCR

Trial findings support the use of krill meal as an effective growth enhancer in fishmeal-challenged diets for whiteleg shrimp, says krill meal producer

Producing shrimp without the use of antibiotics is a realistic goal for all shrimp producers, according to Loc Tran, founder of ShrimpVet.

Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AHPND), caused by specific strains of the bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus (VpAHPND), has been reported in shrimp

The change has shifted China’s shrimp production estimates lower by about 100,000 metric tons (MT) in most of those years. Despite this adjustment